另一种方法是在OVERPARTITION子句中使用MAX（）分析函数

SELECT t.*
  FROM
    (
    SELECT id
          ,rev
          ,contents
          ,MAX(rev) OVER (PARTITION BY id) as max_rev
      FROM YourTable
    ) t
  WHERE t.rev = t.max_rev 

本文中已经记录的另一个ROW_NUMBER（）OVERPARTITION解决方案是

SELECT t.*
  FROM
    (
    SELECT id
          ,rev
          ,contents
          ,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY id ORDER BY rev DESC) rank
      FROM YourTable
    ) t
  WHERE t.rank = 1 

此2 SELECT在Oracle 10g上运行良好。

MAX（）解决方案的运行速度肯定比ROW_NUMBER（）方案快，因为MAX（）复杂性为O（n），而ROW_NUMBER（）复杂性最低为O（n.log（n）），其中n表示表中的记录数！

下面是另一个解决方案，用于仅检索具有该字段最大值的字段的记录。这适用于我工作的平台SQL400。在本例中，字段FIELD5中具有最大值的记录将由以下SQL语句检索。

SELECT A.KEYFIELD1, A.KEYFIELD2, A.FIELD3, A.FIELD4, A.FIELD5
  FROM MYFILE A
 WHERE RRN(A) IN
   (SELECT RRN(B) 
      FROM MYFILE B
     WHERE B.KEYFIELD1 = A.KEYFIELD1 AND B.KEYFIELD2 = A.KEYFIELD2
     ORDER BY B.FIELD5 DESC
     FETCH FIRST ROW ONLY)

此解决方案仅从YourTable中进行一次选择，因此速度更快。根据sqlfiddle.com上的测试，它只适用于MySQL和SQLite（用于SQLite删除DESC）。也许可以调整它以适用于我不熟悉的其他语言。

SELECT *
FROM ( SELECT *
       FROM ( SELECT 1 as id, 1 as rev, 'content1' as content
              UNION
              SELECT 2, 1, 'content2'
              UNION
              SELECT 1, 2, 'content3'
              UNION
              SELECT 1, 3, 'content4'
            ) as YourTable
       ORDER BY id, rev DESC
   ) as YourTable
GROUP BY id

如果select语句中有多个字段，并且希望通过优化代码获得所有这些字段的最新值：

select * from
(select * from table_name
order by id,rev desc) temp
group by id 

按相反顺序对rev字段进行排序，然后按id进行分组，每个分组的第一行是rev值最高的一行。

SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM table1 ORDER BY id, rev DESC) X GROUP BY X.id;

测试时间：http://sqlfiddle.com/具有以下数据

CREATE TABLE table1
    (`id` int, `rev` int, `content` varchar(11));

INSERT INTO table1
    (`id`, `rev`, `content`)
VALUES
    (1, 1, 'One-One'),
    (1, 2, 'One-Two'),
    (2, 1, 'Two-One'),
    (2, 2, 'Two-Two'),
    (3, 2, 'Three-Two'),
    (3, 1, 'Three-One'),
    (3, 3, 'Three-Three')
;

这在MySql 5.5和5.6中给出了以下结果

id  rev content
1   2   One-Two
2   2   Two-Two
3   3   Three-Two

像这样吗？

SELECT yourtable.id, rev, content
FROM yourtable
INNER JOIN (
    SELECT id, max(rev) as maxrev
    FROM yourtable
    GROUP BY id
) AS child ON (yourtable.id = child.id) AND (yourtable.rev = maxrev)