I just thought of something else... could the same be accomplished
using stored routines? I could find no way in MySQL to create stored
routines which could be used with the 'group by' queries though.
If this were possible, it should then be also possible to define a
'LAST' stored routine,
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Victor Danilchenko
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Oooh, this looks evil. It seems like such a simple thing. I guess
creating max(log_date) as a field, and then joining on it, is a solution --
but my actual query (not the abridged version) is already half a
Hi all,
I trying to run a query where, after doing a UNION on two different
SELECTs, I need to sort the result by username and log_date fields, and
then grab the last entry for each username ('last' as determined by the
ordering of the log_date field, which is a datetime).
GROUP
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Victor Danilchenko
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GROUP BY seems like an obvious choice; 'GROUP BY username', to be
exact. However, this seems to produce not the last row's values, but ones
from a random row in the group.
Under most databases your query is
Oooh, this looks evil. It seems like such a simple thing. I guess
creating max(log_date) as a field, and then joining on it, is a solution
-- but my actual query (not the abridged version) is already half a page
long.
I think at this point, unless someone else suggests a better solution,
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Victor Danilchenko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oooh, this looks evil. It seems like such a simple thing. I guess
creating max(log_date) as a field, and then joining on it, is a solution --
but my actual query (not the abridged version) is already half a
