Let's say that we want to find students who are at
position 6, position 7, position 8, position 9 and position 10
when students are ranked by their marks in the descending order.
We clearly need to use ORDER BY to sort students.
We also need to use LIMIT to select only 5 students (position 6 to position 10).
But how do we make sure that the starting position is position 6?
SQL provides OFFSET which sets the starting position.
When we use LIMIT then we take a number of records from the top.
It means starting position is 0.
First let's run the code without any LIMIT or OFFSET.
We can see that in the above result that "Johnson" is at position 6.
We want "Johnson" in the list since we want 5 people starting from position 6.
So we should set our OFFSET value to 5.