Selecting all records using SQL LIMIT and OFFSET query

Question

I wonder if there is a way to accomplish:

SELECT * FROM table 

by using LIMIT and OFFSET like so:

SELECT * FROM table LIMIT all OFFSET 0 

Can I write SQL statement using LIMIT and OFFSET but still getting ALL result?

* of course I can use an IF statement but I rather avoid it if possible

Answer 1

This may not be the best way to do it, but its the first that comes to mind...

SELECT * FROM myTable LIMIT 0,1000000

Replace 1000000 with some adequately large number that you know will always be larger than the total number of records in the table.

Answer 2

From the MySQL documentation:

To retrieve all rows from a certain offset up to the end of the result set, you can use some large number for the second parameter. This statement retrieves all rows from the 96th row to the last:

SELECT * FROM tbl LIMIT 95,18446744073709551615;

So getting all rows might look as follows:

SELECT * FROM tbl LIMIT 0,18446744073709551615;