we are geting first 500 record form table using php and mysql
mysql_connect("hostname", "username","")
mysql_select_db("databasename");
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 50";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($query = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
echo "$query[fieldname1] $query[fieldname2] <br/>";
}
mysql_connect("hostname", "username","")
mysql_select_db("databasename");
$sql = "SELECT * FROM table ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 50";
$result = mysql_query($sql);
while ($query = mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{
echo "$query[fieldname1] $query[fieldname2] <br/>";
}