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

是什么:

select *, max(id) from messages group by name 

我已经在sqlite上测试了它，它返回所有列和所有名称的最大id值。

你可以通过计数来分组，也可以得到分组的最后一项，比如:

SELECT 
    user,
    COUNT(user) AS count,
    MAX(id) as last
FROM request 
GROUP BY user

SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE primary_key IN (SELECT MAX(primary_key) FROM table_name GROUP BY column_name )

UPD: 2017-03-31, MySQL 5.7.5版本默认启用了ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY开关(因此，不确定的GROUP by查询被禁用)。此外，他们更新了GROUP BY实现，即使禁用了开关，解决方案也可能不再像预期的那样工作。我们需要检查一下。

Bill Karwin的上述解决方案在组内的项目计数相当小时工作得很好，但当组相当大时查询性能就会变差，因为该解决方案只需要n*n/2 + n/2个is NULL比较。

我在一个包含18684446行和1182个组的InnoDB表上进行了测试。该表包含功能测试的测试结果，并将(test_id, request_id)作为主键。因此，test_id是一个组，我正在为每个test_id搜索最后的request_id。

Bill的解决方案已经在我的dell e4310上运行了几个小时，我不知道它什么时候会完成，即使它在覆盖索引上运行(因此在EXPLAIN中使用索引)。

基于同样的想法，我有一些其他的解决方案:

if the underlying index is BTREE index (which is usually the case), the largest (group_id, item_value) pair is the last value within each group_id, that is the first for each group_id if we walk through the index in descending order; if we read the values which are covered by an index, the values are read in the order of the index; each index implicitly contains primary key columns appended to that (that is the primary key is in the coverage index). In solutions below I operate directly on the primary key, in you case, you will just need to add primary key columns in the result. in many cases it is much cheaper to collect the required row ids in the required order in a subquery and join the result of the subquery on the id. Since for each row in the subquery result MySQL will need a single fetch based on primary key, the subquery will be put first in the join and the rows will be output in the order of the ids in the subquery (if we omit explicit ORDER BY for the join)

MySQL使用索引的3种方式是一篇了解一些细节的好文章。

解决方案1

这个是非常快的，在我的18M+行上大约需要0.8秒:

SELECT test_id, MAX(request_id) AS request_id
FROM testresults
GROUP BY test_id DESC;

如果你想改变顺序为ASC，把它放在一个子查询中，只返回id，并使用它作为子查询连接到其他列:

SELECT test_id, request_id
FROM (
    SELECT test_id, MAX(request_id) AS request_id
    FROM testresults
    GROUP BY test_id DESC) as ids
ORDER BY test_id;

在我的数据上，这个大约需要1,2秒。

解决方案2

下面是另一个解决方案，对我的表来说大约需要19秒:

SELECT test_id, request_id
FROM testresults, (SELECT @group:=NULL) as init
WHERE IF(IFNULL(@group, -1)=@group:=test_id, 0, 1)
ORDER BY test_id DESC, request_id DESC

它还按降序返回测试。它的速度要慢得多，因为它做了一个完整的索引扫描，但它在这里给你一个想法，如何为每个组输出最多N行。

查询的缺点是查询缓存不能缓存其结果。

另一种方法:

找到每个程序中最大m2_price的属性(一个程序中有n个属性):

select * from properties p
join (
    select max(m2_price) as max_price 
    from properties 
    group by program_id
) p2 on (p.program_id = p2.program_id)
having p.m2_price = max_price