I've got a text field called source_recid. It stores half string half number like strings in it.
Example shop.orders.32442 the syntax is DATABASENAME.TABLENAME.RECID My goal is to scan this col and find out the biggest RECID ( the integer) in it. So, in a case like this shop.orders.32442 shop.orders.82000 shop.orders.34442 It would be the record whose source_recid is shop.orders.82000. Why? Cause 82000 happens to be the largest integer. What SQL statement would get me that record? One option to this is to create a new column ( the_ids ) and move all the integers in it and then run something like this select source_recid from mytable where source_recid like 'shop.orders.%' order by the_ids DESC LIMIT 1 Is there a way to pull this off without going thru this step?
