Question

In the table of my database:

id_client (primary key and auto_increment)

name_client (varchar)

time_insert (datetime)

for example the datas in the table:

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| id_client  name_client  time_insert
| 1            tintin     2012-08-17 11:04:04
| 2            tata       2012-08-17 11:06:15
| 3            toto       2012-08-17 11:10:05

if I want to delete the row whose time_insert is the nearest(the closest to) to system time, how can I write the command?

Answer 1

ORDER BY AND LIMIT is also working for delete statement.

DELETE FROM your_table ORDER BY time_insert desc LIMIT 1