Question

My table strucutre is as follows

| id   | cmp      | empid | empname | ttm  
+------+----------+-------+---------+------
|    2 | xyz      | 12    | swap    |    2 
|    2 | xyz      | 12    | sag     |    3
|    2 | xyz      | 14    | azr     |    1 
|    3 | pqr      | 2     | ron     |    2 
|    3 | pqr      | 22    | rah     |    1 
|    3 | pqr      | 32    | pra     |    5 

I have done query on that like as follows

(select * from test.companies where id = '2' order by ttm desc limit 2)
union
(select * from test.companies where id = '3' order by ttm desc limit 2);

it will give output as follows

| id   | cmp      | empid | empname | ttm  
+------+----------+-------+---------+------
|    2 | wissen   | 12    | sag     |    3
|    2 | wissen   | 12    | swap    |    2 
|    3 | prolinkd | 32    | pra     |    5
|    3 | prolinkd | 2     | ron     |    2 

but i want output as follows

| id   | cmp      | empid | empname | ttm  
+------+----------+-------+---------+------
|    3 | prolinkd | 32    | pra     |    5
|    3 | prolinkd | 2     | ron     |    2
|    2 | wissen   | 12    | sag     |    3 
|    2 | wissen   | 12    | swap    |    2 

means which company has maximum ttm it will be shown first

If some one knows plz reply

Thanks

Answer 1

Rather ugly looking, and ugly sounding, but it should do what you want. It retrieves the “maxttm” for each company with each record, then uses that in sorting to allow you to assign priority to companies based on their highest ttm.

SELECT * FROM (
    (SELECT *,
        (SELECT ttm FROM test.companies ic WHERE ic.id = oc.id ORDER BY ttm DESC LIMIT 1) AS maxttm
        FROM test.companies oc WHERE id = '2' ORDER BY ttm DESC LIMIT 2)
    UNION
    (SELECT *,
        (SELECT ttm FROM test.companies ic WHERE ic.id = oc.id ORDER BY ttm DESC LIMIT 1) AS maxttm
        FROM test.companies oc WHERE id = '3' ORDER BY ttm DESC LIMIT 2)
) AS myunion ORDER BY maxttm, id;

PS. thanks to inti whose query I shamelessly based this on.