Question

Please can someone help me, I have a table of users and another table with users and date time (this is a log file and multiple dates exist per user). I need to take the most recent date from the log table and insert it into the first table next to the same user.

This is what I have but its not working:

INSERT INTO tb1 n (DT) 
SELECT w.DT 
FROM tb2 w
WHERE w.User = n.User
ORDER BY w.DT DESC
limit 1

Answer 1

you don’t need to use INSERT statement here since there are already records present on your table. But instead UPDATE it with JOIN

UPDATE  tb1 a
        INNER JOIN
        (
            SELECT  user, MAX(DT) maxDT
            FROM    tb2
            GROUP by user
        ) b ON a.user = b.user
SET     a.DT = b.maxDT