如果您需要分组查询中文本列的最新或最古老的记录，并且不希望使用子查询，您可以这样做…

例如，你有一个电影列表，需要获得系列电影和最新电影的数量

SELECT COUNT(id), series, SUBSTRING(MAX(CONCAT(id, name)), LENGTH(id) + 1), 
FROM Movies
GROUP BY series

这将返回……

MAX将返回值最高的行，因此通过将id连接到名称，您现在将获得最新的记录，然后去掉id以获得最终结果。

比使用子查询更有效。

对于给定的例子:

SELECT MAX(Id), Name, SUBSTRING(MAX(CONCAT(Id, Other_Columns)), LENGTH(Id) + 1), 
FROM messages
GROUP BY Name

快乐编码，“愿原力与你同在”:)

如果需要每个Name的最后一行，那么可以按Name为每个行组提供行号，并按Id降序排序。

查询

SELECT t1.Id, 
       t1.Name, 
       t1.Other_Columns
FROM 
(
     SELECT Id, 
            Name, 
            Other_Columns,
    (
        CASE Name WHEN @curA 
        THEN @curRow := @curRow + 1 
        ELSE @curRow := 1 AND @curA := Name END 
    ) + 1 AS rn 
    FROM messages t, 
    (SELECT @curRow := 0, @curA := '') r 
    ORDER BY Name,Id DESC 
)t1
WHERE t1.rn = 1
ORDER BY t1.Id;

SQL小提琴

根据您的问题，下面的查询将很好地工作。

SELECT M1.* 
FROM MESSAGES M1,
(
 SELECT SUBSTR(Others_data,1,2),MAX(Others_data) AS Max_Others_data
 FROM MESSAGES
 GROUP BY 1
) M2
WHERE M1.Others_data = M2.Max_Others_data
ORDER BY Others_data;

试试这个:

SELECT jos_categories.title AS name,
       joined .catid,
       joined .title,
       joined .introtext
FROM   jos_categories
       INNER JOIN (SELECT *
                   FROM   (SELECT `title`,
                                  catid,
                                  `created`,
                                  introtext
                           FROM   `jos_content`
                           WHERE  `sectionid` = 6
                           ORDER  BY `id` DESC) AS yes
                   GROUP  BY `yes`.`catid` DESC
                   ORDER  BY `yes`.`created` DESC) AS joined
         ON( joined.catid = jos_categories.id )  

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

下面是一个更有效的版本，只需一行，只要表有时间戳列即可。

SELECT Id, Name, SUBSTRING_INDEX(MAX(CONCAT(TimeStamp, ',', Other_Columns)), ',', -1)
FROM Messages
ORDER BY id DESC GROUP BY Name 

这将返回“Other_Columns”上组的最新记录