Question

I’m trying to grab the latest ID from a duplicate record within my table, without using a timestamp to check.

SELECT *
FROM    `table`
WHERE   `title` = "bananas"

–

table
id title
-- -----
1  bananas
2  apples
3  bananas

Ideally, I want to grab the ID 3

Answer 1

I’m slightly confused by the SELECT in your example, but hopefully you will be able to piece this out from my example.

If you want to return the latest row, you can simply use a MAX() function

SELECT MAX(id) FROM TABLE

Though I definitely recommend trying to determine what makes that row the “latest”. If its just because it has the highest column [id], you may want to consider what happens down the road. What if you want to combine two databases that use the same data? Going off the [id] column might not be the best decision. If you can, I suggest an [LastUpdated] or [Added] datestamp column to your design.