Question

how do i get the latest datetime from multiple same dates in mysql?

SELECT start_time FROM times WHERE start_time BETWEEN '2013-01-27' AND '2013-02-02' ORDER BY start_time

this outputs:

2013-01-27 00:00:00 
2013-01-28 09:00:00 
2013-01-29 00:00:00 
2013-01-30 09:00:00 
2013-01-31 00:00:00     
2013-02-01 09:00:00      
2013-02-01 21:00:00      
2013-02-02 00:00:00 

i want all this to output except i want the latest datetime for 2013-02-01
so it would output like this:

2013-01-27 00:00:00 
2013-01-28 09:00:00 
2013-01-29 00:00:00 
2013-01-30 09:00:00 
2013-01-31 00:00:00          
2013-02-01 21:00:00  <<<<<<<<    
2013-02-02 00:00:00 

Answer 1

SELECT MAX(start_time)
FROM times 
WHERE start_time BETWEEN '2013-01-27 00:00:00' AND '2013-02-02 23:59:59' 
GROUP BY DATE(start_time)
ORDER BY start_time

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