Question

Why the two query below return duplicate member_id and not the third?

I need the second query to work with distinct. Anytime i run a GROUP BY, this query is incredibly slow and the resultset doesn’t return the same value as distinct (the value is wrong).

SELECT member_id, id 
FROM ( SELECT * FROM table1 ORDER BY created_at desc ) as u 
LIMIT 5

+-----------+--------+
| member_id | id     |
+-----------+--------+
|     11333 | 313095 |
|    141831 | 313094 |
|    141831 | 313093 |
|     12013 | 313092 |
|     60821 | 313091 |
+-----------+--------+

---

SELECT distinct member_id, id 
FROM ( SELECT * FROM table1 ORDER BY created_at desc ) as u 
LIMIT 5

+-----------+--------+
| member_id | id     |
+-----------+--------+
|     11333 | 313095 |
|    141831 | 313094 |
|    141831 | 313093 |
|     12013 | 313092 |
|     60821 | 313091 |
+-----------+--------+

---

  SELECT distinct member_id
    FROM ( SELECT * FROM table1 ORDER BY created_at desc ) as u 
    LIMIT 5

+-----------+
| member_id |
+-----------+
|     11333 |
|    141831 |
|     12013 |
|     60821 |
|     64980 |
+-----------+

my table sample

CREATE TABLE `table1` (
  `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `member_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `s_type_id` int(11) NOT NULL,
  `created_at` datetime DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  KEY `s_FI_1` (`member_id`),
  KEY `s_FI_2` (`s_type_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=313096 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

Answer 1

it works, its dirty (no index, no key, temporary table…) but it works,

SELECT member_id,id 
FROM ( SELECT member_id,id, created_at FROM table1 ORDER BY created_at desc ) as u 
group by member_id ORDER BY created_at desc LIMIT 5;