Question

I have a table called employeexam which structure and data are like this:

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| id | course_id   | employee_id | degree | date
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| 1  |  1          | 3           | 8      | 2013-01-14
| 2  |  2          | 4           | 15     | 2013-01-14
| 3  |  2          | 4           | 17     | 2013-01-15
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Desired result would be:

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| id | course_id   | employee_id | degree | date        | numOfTakingExams 
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| 1  |  1          | 3           | 8      | 2013-01-14  | 1
| 3  |  2          | 4           | 17     | 2013-01-15  | 2
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My MySQL query:

SELECT DISTINCT(employeexam.employee_id) as employeeid, 
                employeexam.*, 
                exam.numOfTakingExams 
     FROM employeexam
     JOIN (
            SELECT employee_id , COUNT(employee_id ) as numOfTakingExams 
            FROM employeexam  
            GROUP BY employee_id
          ) exam
     ON exam.employee_id  = employeexam.employee_id 
     ORDER BY employeexam.id DESC   

This outputs numOfTakingExams value correctly, but i can’t select only the data of the last time he entered an exam. Any help?

Answer 1

SELECT  a.*, b.numOfTakingExams
FROM    employeeExam a
        INNER JOIN
        (
            SELECT  employee_id,
                    MAX(date) max_Date,
                    COUNT(*) numOfTakingExams 
            FROM    employeeExam
            GROUP BY course_ID, employee_id
        ) b ON  a.employee_id = b.employee_id AND
                a.date = b.max_Date

• SQLFiddle Demo

you can also get the latest record by the maximum ID if it is set as AUTO_INCREMENT, this query below yields the same result from the query above,

SELECT  a.*, b.numOfTakingExams
FROM    employeeExam a
        INNER JOIN
        (
            SELECT  employee_id,
                    MAX(id) max_Date,
                    COUNT(*) numOfTakingExams 
            FROM    employeeExam
            GROUP BY course_ID, employee_id
        ) b ON  a.employee_id = b.employee_id AND
                a.id = b.max_Date

• SQLFiddle Demo