我有一个表,它是一个关于用户何时登录的集合条目。

username, date,      value
--------------------------
brad,     1/2/2010,  1.1
fred,     1/3/2010,  1.0
bob,      8/4/2009,  1.5
brad,     2/2/2010,  1.2
fred,     12/2/2009, 1.3

etc..

我如何创建一个查询,将给我每个用户的最新日期?

更新:我忘记了我需要有一个值与最近的日期。


当前回答

根据我的经验,最快的方法是取表中没有新行的每一行。

另一个优点是所使用的语法非常简单,而且查询的含义相当容易掌握(取所有行,确保所考虑的用户名不存在更新的行)。

不存在

SELECT username, value
FROM t
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
  SELECT *
  FROM t AS witness
  WHERE witness.username = t.username AND witness.date > t.date
);

ROW_NUMBER

SELECT username, value
FROM (
  SELECT username, value, row_number() OVER (PARTITION BY username ORDER BY date DESC) AS rn
  FROM t
) t2
WHERE rn = 1

内连接

SELECT t.username, t.value
FROM t
INNER JOIN (
  SELECT username, MAX(date) AS date
  FROM t
  GROUP BY username
) tm ON t.username = tm.username AND t.date = tm.date;

左外连接

SELECT username, value
FROM t
LEFT OUTER JOIN t AS w ON t.username = w.username AND t.date < w.date
WHERE w.username IS NULL

其他回答

这与上面的一个答案相似,但在我看来,它更简单、更整洁。此外,还展示了交叉apply语句的良好用法。SQL Server 2005及以上版本…

select
    a.username,
    a.date,
    a.value,
from yourtable a
cross apply (select max(date) 'maxdate' from yourtable a1 where a.username=a1.username) b
where a.date=b.maxdate

对于Oracle,将结果集按降序排序,并获取第一个记录,因此您将获得最新的记录:

select * from mytable
where rownum = 1
order by date desc

获取包含用户最大日期的整行信息:

select username, date, value
from tablename where (username, date) in (
    select username, max(date) as date
    from tablename
    group by username
)
SELECT * FROM TABEL1 WHERE DATE= (SELECT MAX(CREATED_DATE) FROM TABEL1)
SELECT MAX(DATE) AS dates 
FROM assignment  
JOIN paper_submission_detail ON  assignment.PAPER_SUB_ID = 
     paper_submission_detail.PAPER_SUB_ID