select brand, max(year) from cars group by year order by yearunion select brand, year from cars order by year
2009/4/25 Olav Mørkrid <olav.mork...@gmail.com> > Say I have a table with any number of car brands, with belonging street > dates. > > Is it possible to do the following type of sort in a single query? > > 1. First I want the newest model of all car brands, but only one of > each brand! And they should be ordered by year > > 2. Then I want the cars that weren't the newest of their brand, also > ordered by year > > Currently, I do two similar queries where I use "group by" on the > first batch, but since each query is rather heavy, I would like to > reduce them to one query if possible. > > select brand, year from cars order by [WHICH METHOD?] > > Ferrari | 2008 > Porsche | 2005 > Jaguar | 1997 > ----------+------- > Ferrari | 2006 > Porsche | 2004 > Ferrari | 2003 > Jaguar | 1995 > Jaguar | 1992 > Porsche | 1981 > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=mysql.li...@gmail.com > > -- Dingze Zhu We are running the best Chinese MySQL and Solaris Community in China. Welcome to visit http://www.mysqlsystems.com
