# SQL query in Data Explorer to pull latest topics?

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**Category:** Data & reporting\
**Tags:** sql-query\
**Created:** [June 4, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sql-query-in-data-explorer-to-pull-latest-topics/63908 "2017-06-04T15:47:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 2:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sql-query-in-data-explorer-to-pull-latest-topics/63908/7 "2017-06-05T14:31:42Z")

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The "8 hours ago " thing gets done by a rails function. There is probably some function you can find that’ll do that for you.

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