As I already commented in Re: (OT) MySQL query to limit and sort, the sort on id is already exhaustive, meaning that sorting on total doesn't change anything. That is, every id value is different, so Total is never considered as a sorting criterion.
Remember that Order by foo, bar desc, baz is similar to this in Perl: 
sort {
    $a->{foo} cmp $b->{foo}
    ||
    $b->{bar} cmp $a->{bar}
    ||
    $a->{baz} cmp $b->{baz}
}

[download]
If all the "foo" fields are distinct, the sort short-circuits and never considers bar or baz.

And that's exactly why I offered the sub-select as a solution: first grab the 10 most recent id's, then sort those on Total. You have to do the ordering in two steps, no way around that.

In reply to Re^3: (OT) MySQL query to limit and sort by rhesa
in thread (OT) MySQL query to limit and sort by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.