Question

This might be a simple one, but since I don’t have much knowledge about MySQL I don’t know how to do this, This is what I basically want,

I have a query like this

//time format “yyyy-MM-dd”

SELECT ID 
FROM `id_table` 
WHERE time > "2012-01-05 " AND time < "2012-01-10";

But in the id_table I have data only up to 2012-01-04 then it starts again from “2012-01-20”, so above query would return null. Is there a any way where I can retrieve the last data record from the table, as for this example can I get the ID of 2012-01-04 date from the table when I query like this

SELECT ID 
FROM `id_table` 
WHERE time > "2012-01-05"

Answer 1

Are you looking for the one (i assume max ID) ID of the row with the nearest time to 2010-01-05?

SELECT MAX(ID) as LastId FROM id_table 
WHERE time = (SELECT MAX(time) 
              FROM id_table WHERE time < '2012-01-05')