Question

I have a table of bids (like an eBay bids, for example):

bid_id | bid_from_user | bid_for_auction | bid_price
1      | 150           | 1               | 20
2      | 453           | 1               | 30
3      | 42            | 1               | 50
4      | 12            | 2               | 12
5      | 60            | 2               | 20

I need to select each bid_for_auction only once with its highest current bid, so my result should look like this:

bid_for_auction | bid_price
1               | 50
2               | 20

How would I go about doing this?

Answer 1

Use GROUP BY

SELECT bid_for_auction, MAX(bid_price) AS bid_price
FROM bids GROUP BY bid_for_auction;