这里有两个建议。首先，如果mysql支持ROW_NUMBER()，这很简单:

WITH Ranked AS (
  SELECT Id, Name, OtherColumns,
    ROW_NUMBER() OVER (
      PARTITION BY Name
      ORDER BY Id DESC
    ) AS rk
  FROM messages
)
  SELECT Id, Name, OtherColumns
  FROM messages
  WHERE rk = 1;

我猜你说的"最后"是指最后一个。如果不是，则相应地更改ROW_NUMBER()窗口的ORDER BY子句。如果ROW_NUMBER()不可用，这是另一个解决方案:

其次，如果没有，这通常是一个很好的方法:

SELECT
  Id, Name, OtherColumns
FROM messages
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
  SELECT * FROM messages as M2
  WHERE M2.Name = messages.Name
  AND M2.Id > messages.Id
)

换句话说，选择没有相同名称的later-Id消息的消息。

MariaDB 10.3及更新版本使用GROUP_CONCAT。

这个想法是使用ORDER BY + LIMIT:

SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(id ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1) AS id,
       name,
       GROUP_CONCAT(Other_columns ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1) AS Other_columns
FROM t
GROUP BY name;

db < > fiddle演示

一个相当快的方法如下。

SELECT * 
FROM messages a
WHERE Id = (SELECT MAX(Id) FROM messages WHERE a.Name = Name)

结果

Id  Name    Other_Columns
3   A   A_data_3
5   B   B_data_2
6   C   C_data_1

我还没有测试大DB，但我认为这可能比连接表更快:

SELECT *, Max(Id) FROM messages GROUP BY Name

我也遇到过类似的问题

子查询和加入救援

SELECT p."Date"
        ,p."Symbol"
        ,p."ratio_roll_qtr_ret"
    FROM PUBLIC."prices_vw" AS p
    JOIN (
        SELECT "Symbol"
            ,max("Date")
        FROM PUBLIC."prices_vw"
        GROUP BY "Symbol"
        ) AS sq ON p."Date" = sq."max"
        AND p."Symbol" = sq."Symbol"
    WHERE p."ratio_roll_qtr_ret" IS NOT NULL
    ORDER BY "ratio_roll_qtr_ret" DESC;

以下是我的解决方案:

SELECT 
  DISTINCT NAME,
  MAX(MESSAGES) OVER(PARTITION BY NAME) MESSAGES 
FROM MESSAGE;