how to select last record of each user in sql

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I have a table with the following fields

ID Name Message
1 aaa Hi
2 sss Hello
3 mmm Gud
4 aaa Hello
5 bbb Hi
6 sss seeYou
7 aaa Ok
8 bbb Ok

ID is the PrimaryKey and Name is a foreignKey

I need a query to see only the last updates of each user
That is I need a result like

ID Name Message
3 mmm Gud
5 sss seeYou
6 aaa Ok
7 bbb Ok

Can anyone please help me..?
Thanks in advance

Posted 7-Jul-15 3:03am

Baiju christadima

Updated 7-Jul-15 3:05am

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Suvendu Shekhar Giri · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-07T03:17:00

Solution 1

There are many ways but something like this may help-

SQL

SELECT T1.ID, T1.Name, T1.Message
FROM YourTable AS T1
INNER JOIN
(
  SELECT MAX(ID),Name
  FROM YourTable
  GROUP BY Name
) AS T2
ON T1.ID=T2.ID

Hope, it helps :)

Posted 7-Jul-15 3:17am

Suvendu Shekhar Giri

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Baiju christadima 7-Jul-15 11:13am

Thanks..

Suvendu Shekhar Giri 7-Jul-15 11:40am

Glad to know that it helped :)