Question

I have a table with two columns:

UserId (auto int)
Email(Nvarchar) 

I want to retrieve the email that was last inserted on table.

I’ve tried some options, but nothing seems to be working.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Perhaps simply:

SELECT TOP 1 email FROM dbo.Table ORDER BY UserId DESC

or

SELECT UserId, Email
FROM dbo.Table
WHERE UserId = (SELECT MAX(UserId) FROM dbo.Table)

However, it’s not good practise to abuse a primary-key column for information like “last inserted”. Add a datetime column for this.

You could also use the ROW_NUMBER function:

WITH x  AS (
    SELECT UserId, Email,
        rn = Row_number() OVER(ORDER BY UserId DESC) 
    FROM   dbo.table) 
SELECT UserId, Email
FROM   x 
WHERE  rn = 1