What does mean "DOES NOT WORK? Are you getting an OperationalError? Use the argument *groupby *instead of *distinct*, and you'll get the desired results.
On Sunday, May 8, 2016 at 9:33:44 AM UTC+2, PRACHI VAKHARIA wrote: > > > > *How To Select Only The Latest Rows from a Table* > > For a Table structure as below: > *Table(* > *PrimaryKey,* > *FieldName1,* > *FieldName2,* > *Time)* > > FieldName1 and FieldName2 are not unique. > > *Goal: To select only the latest row for each FieldName2* > > *Items = db(db.Table.FieldName1 != Value1).select(orderby=~db.Table.Time, > limitby=limitby, distinct=db.Table.FieldName2)* > > How to write the above statement so that it selects All the rows from the > Table such that: > – For any given condition which here is: *db.Table.FieldName1 != Value1** > (works)* > – Select All Rows from Table* (works)* > – Order those rows by Time field* (works)* > – limit selection by limitby number* (works)* > *– And Selects only the Latest row for FieldName2 : Latest measured by > Time** ( **distinct=db.Table.FieldName2 DOES NOT WORK)* > > > Thank you, very much for reading. Only the part of selecting the distinct > last element for FieldName2 does not work and I cannot figure it out. I > hope someone can help. > > > > — > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
