Question

Can not understand how to make an select:
table structure:

id name value date
1 ivan    2    2010-01-01
2 ivan    3    2010-05-08
3 ivan    1    2009-04-14
4 sasha   2    2011-11-11
5 sasha   9    2012-04-04

How to get?:

name value(in last time)
ivan  3
sasha 9

Answer 1

This query should work

select f.name, f.value, f.date
from (
   select id,name,max(date) as dat from tableName group by name
) as x inner join tableName as f on f.name = x.name and f.date = x.dat;