Question

I use the following to select the last event a user added

SELECT MAX(user_event_id) from user_events where user_id = 63

On this row there is also a column event_title yet if i try:

SELECT MAX(user_event_id), event_title from user_events where user_id = 63

the event_title returned does not correspond with the user_event_id

Is it possible to return the last user_event_id and event_title?

Answer 1

This solution doesn’t need ORDER BY, which would run slowly if the table is long.

SELECT user_event_id, event_title
FROM user_events
WHERE user_event_id = (SELECT MAX(user_event_id)
                       FROM user_events
                       WHERE user_id = 63)
AND user_id = 63   -- This clause not needed if user_event_id is unique