>for every "id" I want exactly one row, namely the row with the maximum
value of "version".
SELECT id,MAX(version) FROM data GROUP BY id;
PB
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Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:
Hi all,
I have the following simple table:
CREATE TABLE data (
id int NOT NULL,
version int NOT NULL,
value int NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id, version)
)
ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;
What I would like to do is to find all the values for the latest
versions, that is, for every "id" I want exactly one row, namely the
row with the maximum value of "version". Without using SQL I can think
of a very efficient way for the query optimizer to accomplish this for
me, namely by using the primary key to iterate through each value for
"id" and then looking for the maximum "version", which is essentialy
O(1) because it's the last entry in the index for that specific id.
However, I don't know how to do this query in SQL, the closest I got was:
select id, version, value from data d1 where version = (select
max(d2.version) from data d2 where d2.id = d1.id)
However this is extremely inefficient and takes much to long (in the
order of 5 seconds on the data I have).
Does anybody know an efficient way to do this?
Thanks in advance,
Sebastiaan
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