You could probably use a subquerry to backtrack the clienthistory_id.
SELECT
v.clienthistory_id,
(SELECT
MAX(historyvlan_time),
historyvlan_vlan
FROM
pe_historyvlan as v join pe_clienthistory using
(clienthistory_id)
GROUP BY
historyvlan_vlan order by historyvlan_vlan, historyvlan_time
desc
FROM
...
WHERE
MAX(historyvlan_time)=historyvlan_time
AND historyvlan_vlan=historyvlan_vlan
This could work if historyvlan_time and historyvlan_vlan can be treated as
dual primary keys, but I am still new to MySQL and this might need to be
tweaked to work right. I hope it helps, or gets you moving in a better
direction.
Elton Clark
Project Engineer
IMET Corporation
82 Walker Lane, Suite 100
Newtown, PA 18940
215-860-6081 x5
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Stassen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 12:17 AM
To: Daevid Vincent
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Erroneus column using MAX() and GROUP BY
You've misunderstood how GROUP BY and MAX() work. GROUP BY divides your
data into groups, and aggregate functions such as MAX() tell you something
about each group, but they *do not* return *rows* from your table. Consider
the following example rows in a larger table:
cat val1 val2
4 1 1
4 5 3
4 7 2
4 3 4
4 7 1
Now consider the query
SELECT cat, MIN(val1), MAX(val1), MIN(val2), MAX(val2)
FROM mytable
GROUP BY cat;
I think it should be easy to see that for the group where cat is 4, I'll get
the following result:
+-----+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| cat | MIN(val1) | MAX(val1) | MIN(val2) | MAX(val2) |
+-----+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
+-----+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
Which row is that in my table? You see? Even if I only asked for
MAX(val1), there are 2 rows with the max value of 7. AS I said before, we
get information about each group, but not rows from the table.
Other systems wouldn't even allow your query, because clienthistory_id is
neither an aggregate function nor a grouped column. MySQL allows this as a
convenience, but you are warned not to use columns whose values are not
unique per group, as you will get random (first found, I believe) results.
See the manual for more
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/group-by-hidden-fields.html>.
Fortunately, yours is such a frequently asked question, that the manual has
a page describing three solutions. See
<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/example-maximum-column-group-row.html>.
Michael
Daevid Vincent wrote:
> I have this table:
>
> mysql> select historyvlan_time, historyvlan_vlan, v.clienthistory_id from
> pe_historyvlan as v join pe_clienthistory using (clienthistory_id) order
by
> historyvlan_vlan, historyvlan_time desc;
> +------------------+------------------+------------------+
> | historyvlan_time | historyvlan_vlan | clienthistory_id |
> +------------------+------------------+------------------+
> | 0503011446 | 4 | 55 | <--
> | 0503011440 | 4 | 54 |
> | 0502181640 | 4 | 29 |
> | 0502181638 | 4 | 26 |
> | 0502181508 | 4 | 24 |
> | 0503021500 | 5 | 73 | <--
> | 0503011808 | 6 | 71 | <--
> | 0503011452 | 6 | 56 |
> | 0502181626 | 6 | 25 |
> | 0502181640 | 7 | 28 | <--
> | 0503011805 | 8 | 70 | <--
> | 0503011801 | 8 | 68 |
> | 0503011731 | 8 | 61 |
> | 0503011730 | 8 | 60 |
> +------------------+------------------+------------------+
> 14 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>
> I am trying to find the id and vlan for the most recent time:
>
> mysql> select max(historyvlan_time), historyvlan_vlan, v.clienthistory_id
> from pe_historyvlan as v join pe_clienthistory using (clienthistory_id)
> group by historyvlan_vlan order by historyvlan_vlan, historyvlan_time
desc;
> +-----------------------+------------------+------------------+
> | max(historyvlan_time) | historyvlan_vlan | clienthistory_id |
> +-----------------------+------------------+------------------+
> | 0503011446 | 4 | 24 | <--
> | 0503021500 | 5 | 73 |
> | 0503011808 | 6 | 25 | <--
> | 0502181640 | 7 | 28 |
> | 0503011805 | 8 | 60 | <--
> +-----------------------+------------------+------------------+
> 5 rows in set (0.00 sec)
>
>
> Why do I get '24' when I should get '55', '25' when I should get '61', and
> '60' when I should get '70'.
>
>
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