Question

I have a table for logging a Facebook application user actions. I want to get the latest row that is not older then 9 minutes for a specific action ID. The table has a lot of columns of other statistical information, so I will show only 2 of the rows that represent the problem:

timestamp                  facebookID   producerID      eventID   actionID   numOfTickets
2012-05-28 13:16:38     100003286974944    9             1741        cpf      2
2012-05-28 13:16:13     100003286974944    9             1741        cpf      4

What I want to do is getting the latest row where actionID = 'cpf'.

What I’ve tried is:

SELECT CONCAT_WS(' ', y.firstName, y.lastName) as fullName, x.facebookID, x.numOfTickets, MAX(x.timestamp) 
FROM E4S_ANALYTICS.e4s_analytic_data x INNER JOIN E4S_FB.e4s_user_details y ON x.facebookID = y.facebookID 
WHERE (x.actionID = 'CPF' AND x.numOfTickets > 0 AND x.producerID = 9 AND TIMEDIFF(NOW() , x.timestamp) < '00:09:00' 
AND x.facebookID IN (SELECT facebookID FROM  E4S_FB.e4s_session_data WHERE 
                     TIMEDIFF(NOW() , sessionStart) < '00:09:00' ))

The result of the query is:

facebookID      numOfTickets    MAX(x.timestamp)
100003286974944  4              2012-05-28 13:16:38

The timestamp returned is correct but the numOfTickets is 4 instead of 2.

For note, the inner query:

SELECT facebookID FROM  E4S_FB.e4s_session_data 
WHERE TIMEDIFF(NOW() , sessionStart) < '00:09:00' ))

Is used to see who is still logged in to the application.

Answer 1

SELECT CONCAT_WS(' ', y.firstName, y.lastName) AS fullName,
       x.facebookID,
       x.numOfTickets,
       x.timestamp
FROM   (
         SELECT *
         FROM   E4S_ANALYTICS.e4s_analytic_data
         WHERE  actionID = 'cpf'
            AND numOfTickets > 0
            AND producerID = 9
            AND TIMEDIFF(NOW() , timestamp) < '00:09:00' 
            AND (facebookID, timestamp) IN (
                  SELECT   facebookID, MAX(timestamp)
                  FROM     E4S_ANALYTICS.e4s_analytic_data
                  WHERE    actionID = 'cpf'
                       AND numOfTickets > 0
                       AND producerID = 9
                       AND TIMEDIFF(NOW() , timestamp) < '00:09:00' 
                       AND facebookID IN (
                             SELECT facebookID
                             FROM   E4S_FB.e4s_session_data
                             WHERE  TIMEDIFF(NOW() , sessionStart) < '00:09:00'
                           )
                  GROUP BY facebookID
                )
       ) AS x
  INNER JOIN E4S_FB.e4s_user_details AS y USING (facebookID)