I have this table for documents (simplified version here):
+------+-------+--------------------------------------+
| id | rev | content |
+------+-------+--------------------------------------+
| 1 | 1 | ... |
| 2 | 1 | ... |
| 1 | 2 | ... |
| 1 | 3 | ... |
+------+-------+--------------------------------------+
How do I select one row per id and only the greatest rev?
With the above data, the result should contain two rows: [1, 3, ...]
and [2, 1, ..]
. I'm using MySQL.
Currently I use checks in the while
loop to detect and over-write old revs from the resultset. But is this the only method to achieve the result? Isn't there a SQL solution?
Update
As the answers suggest, there is a SQL solution, and here a sqlfiddle demo.
Update 2
I noticed after adding the above sqlfiddle, the rate at which the question is upvoted has surpassed the upvote rate of the answers. That has not been the intention! The fiddle is based on the answers, especially the accepted answer.
转载于:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7745609/sql-select-only-rows-with-max-value-on-a-column