Query to get nearest distance record - mysql

Question

I have following mysql query:
SELECT a.id
, ( 3959 * acos( cos( radians(a.latitude) ) * cos( radians( w.latitude ) )
* cos( radians( w.longitude ) - radians(-a.longitude) )
+ sin( radians(a.latitude) ) * sin(radians(w.latitude)) ) ) distance
FROM global_restaurants a
JOIN webgeocities w
ON w.name = a.locality
AND w.country_code = a.country
AND a.latitude LIKE w.latitude
JOIN states s
ON s.state_code = w.state_code
AND w.country_code = s.country_code
WHERE a.city_id = 0
After execution it returns:
id distance
70 6665.478678743614
70 6496.46971480875
70 6725.900646648246
70 6733.5156930808
90 6969.449661399672
90 7252.889875588891
I want it to only return 2 rows with minimum distance like:
id distance
70 6496.46971480875
90 6969.449661399672

Answer 1

add order by at the end of your query:
order by distance ASC LIMIT 2;
now you calculating the distance but
at end of the query you must sort them and limit the returns row count..
.
NOTE:
i think you have a small mistake on your query
the 3959 is for miles but i think the values are in meter
your full query can be like this:
select a.id, ( 6371000 * acos( cos( radians(a.latitude) ) * cos( radians( w.latitude ) )
* cos( radians( w.longitude ) - radians(-a.longitude) ) + sin( radians(a.latitude) ) * sin(radians(w.latitude)) ) ) AS distance
from `global_restaurants` as a INNER JOIN webgeocities as w ON (w.name = a.locality AND w.country_code = a.country and a.latitude like w.latitude) INNER JOIN
states AS s ON (s.state_code = w.state_code and w.country_code = s.country_code) where a.city_id = '0' ORDER BY distance ASC LIMIT 2;

Answer 2

For simplicity, let's assumed that you have your query in view - stack, then your query should look like this
select stack.* from stack join (
SELECT id, GROUP_CONCAT(distance ORDER BY
distance asc) grouped_distance FROM stack GROUP BY id
) group_distance on group_distance.id=stack.id
where find_in_set(stack.distance,group_distance.grouped_distance)between 1 and 2;