Question

I have the following SQL select statement

SELECT first_name, year FROM users WHERE username='$username'

This can return many results because a user record can exist per year e.g. one for 2012, 2011 etc. Therefore I want to only fetch the details of the user from the latest year that the user record exists for.

Any ideas how i can do this?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can find the max year for a user, and then nest that so that you only select the one record with that year.

SELECT first_name, year FROM users U1 WHERE username='$username'
 and year = (select max(year) FROM users U2 WHERE U1.username=U2.username)