How can I exclude a certain row from an MySQL query

Question

I want to exclude a certain row from an MYSQL query.

SELECT * FROM imdb WHERE genres LIKE 'Adventure' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 10

It's for a movie website, so I retrive similar Adventures movie, but this includes the current movie.

So I need something like this:

Select the movies like Adventures, but exclude this id: 1, yet, results 10 movies.

Solution 1

If you know the exact id (say, id = 1 for example), do this:

SELECT * FROM imdb WHERE genres LIKE 'Adventure' AND id <> 1 ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 10

See this SO post.

Solution 2

Something like this maybe?

SELECT * 
FROM imdb 
WHERE genres LIKE 'Adventure' AND
  ID NOT IN (1)
ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 10

You can put a list of IDs you don't want to include between the parenthesis after NOT IN.

EDIT: You could also put a query in between those parens if you know a particular group of ID's you want to exclude:

WHERE genres LIKE 'Adventure' AND
  ID NOT IN (SELECT ID FROM imdb WHERE LeadActor='Pauly Shore') --You know you want to exclude him =)

Solution 3

SELECT * FROM imdb WHERE genres LIKE 'Adventure' and id != 1 ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 10

Comments

[Special K.]

Thank you, it did work, and actually I did this before, but visually in the MySQL results show me the id I wanted to exclude too, but the text was Showing rows 0 - 3 (4 total, Query took 0.0012 sec) [id: 243 - 229], so thank you again for brining the light.

[Josh Darnell]

@Wtstatscom: By the way, you can click the empty "Check Mark" symbol next to JW's answer to indicate that it worked for you =)

[Josh Darnell]

@Wtstatscom: There is a screenshot here. =)

[Special K.]

@jadarnel27 - Thank you & done, thank you guys. You were so fast with the replies.