Question

I have a database in MYSQL and it has chat table which looks like this.

I am using this query for fetching these records

SELECT * FROM (
    SELECT * FROM `user_chats`
    WHERE sender_id =2 OR receiver_id =2
    ORDER BY id DESC
) AS tbl
GROUP BY sender_id, receiver_id 

But my requirement is only 5,4 ID’s records. basically my requirement id fetching last conversation in between 2 users. Here in between 2 & 3 user conversation has 2 records and we want only last one of them i.e. id = 5, here don’t need id = 2.

So how we can write a query for that result?

Answer 1

SELECT 
 * 
FROM 
 user_chats uc 
WHERE
 not exists ( 
   SELECT 
    1 
   FROM 
     user_chats uc2 
   WHERE 
     uc2.created > uc.created AND 
     (
       (uc.sender_id = uc2.sender_id AND uc.reciever_id = uc2.reciever_id) OR  
       (uc.sender_id = uc2.reciever_id AND uc.reciever_id = uc2.sender_id)
     )
  )