Hi,
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Esbach, Brandon
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>
> There is likely a blindingly obvious solution to this, I need to do a
> group by expression in my query and get the latest row based on a date
> field in the same table.
> Is this even possible, and any tips on
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Esbach, Brandon
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> Hmm didn't notice that replies are sent to personal emails :o!
> I'll look down that avenue once I've completed the mysql version upgrade
> (mysql 4 on my test bench, mysql5 upgrade in progress on the production
> serv
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Sent: 04 March 2008 16:56
To: Esbach, Brandon; MySQL User Group
Subject: Re: Getting the last item in a "group by" query?
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Esbach, Brandon
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> Thanks for the reply,
>
> Sorry, should have bee
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Esbach, Brandon
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> Thanks for the reply,
>
> Sorry, should have been more specific on that :).
> I need to access the last record by date for each serial_number in the
> table (not just latest record)
Okay, this is untested, so I do
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Esbach, Brandon
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[snip!]
> SELECT
> t.pass, t.id
> FROM
> theTable t
> GROUP BY
> t.serial_number
> ORDER BY
> t.date desc
Try adding the LIMIT keyword.
SELECT t.pass, t.id FROM theTable t GROU
