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Asked: 2026-05-23T21:51:33+00:00

I’m building a bug tracker type tool for kicks. I’m having probs with a

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I’m building a bug tracker type tool for kicks.
I’m having probs with a small prob relating to version control of my data.

I have a table ‘action’ where I store all the data about the action (desription, who entered it, status etc). I also have a action_status table where each time the status is changed (from not asigned, in progress, complete etc) it is logged here..
What I can’t seem to do is list the actions with their latest status value.
You’ll note that the status table has two rows, one has been submitted, the otehr has not.. I ONLY want to see the row that has submitted = 0 (the latest date I’d presume..)

to make matters worse, each action has a revision Id and if the action text is changed, I’m creating a new entry in the action table with the same ID, but a new revision ID.. this however is working great.. but I thought I should mention in case it’s interfering with my problem.

Here are my tables and some sample data:
Am I being a monkey?

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `action` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `id_action` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `id_priority` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `revision` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '1',
  `reference` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  `department` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `id_parent` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
  `sort_order` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `description` text NOT NULL,
  `date_start` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `date_end` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  `date_created` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `id` (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=6 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `action`
--

INSERT INTO `action` (`id`, `id_action`, `id_priority`, `revision`, `reference`, `department`, `id_parent`, `sort_order`, `description`, `date_start`, `date_end`, `date_created`) VALUES
(1, 1, 1, 1, '1', 1, 0, 2, 'Test Action revision test 1 a', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '2011-06-17 00:00:00'),
(2, 1, 1, 2, '0', 1, 0, 2, 'Test Action revision test 1 b', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '2011-06-17 00:00:00'),
(3, 2, 1, 1, '0', 1, 0, 1, 'Test Action revision test 2 a', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '2011-06-17 00:00:00'),
(4, 2, 1, 2, '0', 1, 0, 1, 'Test Action revision test 2 b', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '2011-06-17 00:00:00'),
(5, 3, 2, 1, '0', 1, 0, 0, 'Test Action revision test 3 b', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '0000-00-00 00:00:00', '2011-06-17 00:00:00');

-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `action_status`
--

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `action_status` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `id_department` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `id_priority` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `id_action` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `status` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `submitted` tinyint(4) NOT NULL,
  `approved` tinyint(4) NOT NULL,
  `published` tinyint(4) NOT NULL,
  `date_now` datetime NOT NULL DEFAULT '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `id` (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `action_status`
--

INSERT INTO `action_status` (`id`, `id_department`, `id_priority`, `id_action`, `status`, `submitted`, `approved`, `published`, `date_now`) VALUES
(1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 1, '2011-06-20 16:36:09'),
(2, 1, 1, 2, 5, 0, 0, 0, '2011-06-20 16:40:09');


CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `priority` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `description` text NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `id` (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8 AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `priority`
--

INSERT INTO `priority` (`id`, `description`) VALUES
(1, 'Test Priority'),
(2, '2nd Priority');

And my ‘problem’ SQL

SELECT `action`.`id_priority`, `priority`.`description` as priority, `action`.`reference`, `action`.`description` as action, `action`.`id_action`, `action`.`date_start`, `action`.`date_end`, `action`.`id_parent`, `action_status`.`status`, `action`.`revision`, `action_status`.`submitted`, `action_status`.`date_now`

FROM (`action`)

LEFT JOIN action_status ON
  `action_status`.`id_action` = `action`.`id_action`

JOIN `priority` ON
  `action`.`id_priority` = `priority`.`id`

WHERE
action.department = 1 AND
action.revision =(SELECT MAX(ar.revision) FROM action as ar WHERE action.id_action = ar.id_action)

GROUP BY `action`.`id_action`

ORDER BY `id_priority` asc, `id_parent` asc, `sort_order` asc
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  1. Editorial Team

    If I understood it well and you need only actions with max revision, try something like this:

    SELECT *

FROM

    (SELECT `action`.`id_action`, max(`action`.`revision`), 
        (select id 
         from action as a 
         where a.id_action = action.id_action 
         order by revision desc 
         limit 1) as id_with_max_revision

    FROM `action`

    WHERE
    action.department = 1

    GROUP BY `action`.`id_action`

    ) as action_max_revision
JOIN action on action_max_revision.id_with_max_revision = action.id
LEFT JOIN action_status ON
      `action_status`.`id_action` = `action`.`id_action`

JOIN `priority` ON
      `action`.`id_priority` = `priority`.`id`
ORDER BY `id_priority` asc, `id_parent` asc, `sort_order` asc

    The inner query selects actions with max revision, and the outer query does the other gimcrackery which is not the core of the problem 🙂

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