Question

I am trying to write mysql statement that selects the last added value from the table.
Since the id column in my table is an auto increment value, I find that the easiest way to do this is selecting the row with the highest ID value.

I was wondering if anyone can help me accomplish this?

Something like this:

mysql_query(“SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=max(id)”

Answer 1

MAX is an aggregate/group function you can’t use like this

try this

SELECT * 
FROM blog 
ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1;

OR

SELECT * 
FROM blog 
where id=LAST_INSERT_ID();

OR

SELECT *
FROM blog 
WHERE (id = (SELECT MAX(id) FROM blog LIMIT 1))