hi all... i have an issue with group by and ordering. apparently group by ignores 'order by id DESC'?!
an example is a table that has an id and a category fields. there are a few categories under which records can be filed. so what i want is the latest record from each category by doing something like: select id, name from table group by category order by id DESC; this doesn;t work - it shows me the first record under each category - not the latest as specified by DESC?! something is wrong. i tried 'distinct' but that 'distincts' on all fields in the query?!?! whats the point of distinct if it can not distincts between fields?! in: select distinct category, id, name from table order by id DESC; this query distincts on all category, id and name when it should distinct only on category.... how do i do that without temporary tables? thanks... -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
