title: my_sql, need to delete 1st row
body: <p>I've looked this up here and on the web in general and not found an answer.</p>
  
  <p>For reasons I'll not go into, I need to delete the top row from a mysql
  database table, then refresh the page.</p>
  
  <p>The delete is always for the top row, and independent of the row's content,
  so doing a select where  is useless.</p>
  
  <p>Seems to me I should be able to call (in my php code) this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mysql_deleterow(0);  // delete the top row from the table
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and be done with it.  But oh no -- no such call that I can find.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to just delete a table row independent of its content?
  (please reread above where I say 'for reasons I'll not go into' if you
  feel an urge to ask me 'Why do you want to do that?')</p>