MySql GROUP BY Max Date - mysql

Question

I have a table called votes with 4 columns: id, name, choice, date.
****id****name****vote******date***
****1*****sam*******A******01-01-17
****2*****sam*******B******01-05-30
****3*****jon*******A******01-01-19
My ultimate goal is to count up all the votes, but I only want to count 1 vote per person, and specifically each person's most recent vote.
In the example above, the result should be 1 vote for A, and 1 vote for B.
Here is what I currently have:
select name,
sum(case when uniques.choice = A then 1 else 0 end) votesA,
sum(case when uniques.choice = B then 1 else 0 end) votesB
FROM (
SELECT id, name, choice, max(date)
FROM votes
GROUP BY name
) uniques;
However, this doesn't work because the subquery is indeed selecting the max date, but it's not including the correct choice that is associated with that max date.

Answer 1

Don't think "group by" to get the most recent vote. Think of join or some other option. Here is one way:
SELECT v.name,
SUM(v.choice = 'A') as votesA,
SUM(v.choice = 'B') as votesB
FROM votes v
WHERE v.date = (SELECT MAX(v2.date) FROM votes v2 WHERE v2.name = v.name)
GROUP BY v.name;
Here is a SQL Fiddle.

Answer 2

Your answer are close but need to JOIN self
Subquery get Max date by name then JOIN self.
select
sum(case when T.vote = 'A' then 1 else 0 end) votesA,
sum(case when T.vote = 'B' then 1 else 0 end) votesB
FROM (
SELECT name,Max(date) as date
FROM T
GROUP BY name
) AS T1 INNER JOIN T ON T1.date = T.date
SQLFiddle

Answer 3

Try this
SELECT
choice,
COUNT(1)
FROM
votes v
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT
id,
max(date)
FROM
votes
GROUP BY
name
) tmp ON
v.id = tmp.id
GROUP BY
choice;

Answer 4

Something like this (if you really need count only last vote of person)
SELECT
sum(case when vote='A' then cnt else 0 end) voteA,
sum(case when vote='B' then cnt else 0 end) voteB
FROM
(SELECT vote,count(distinct name) cnt
FROM (
SELECT name,vote,date,max(date) over (partition by name) maxd
FROM votes
)
WHERE date=maxd
GROUP BY vote
)
PS. MySQL v 8

Answer 5

select
name,
sum( case when choice = 'A' then 1 else 0 end) voteA,
sum( case when choice = 'B' then 1 else 0 end) voteB
from
(
select id, name, choice
from votes
where date = (select max(date) from votes t2
where t2.name = votes.name )
) t
group by name
Or output just one row for the total counts of VoteA and VoteB:
select
sum( case when choice = 'A' then 1 else 0 end) voteA,
sum( case when choice = 'B' then 1 else 0 end) voteB
from
(
select id, name, choice
from votes
where date = (select max(date) from votes t2
where t2.name = votes.name )
) t

Answer 6

Based on #d-shish solution, and since introduction (in MySQL 5.7) of ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY, the GROUP BY statement must be placed in subquery like this :
SELECT v.`name`,
SUM(v.`choice` = 'A') as `votesA`,
SUM(v.`choice` = 'B') as `votesB`
FROM `votes` v
WHERE (
SELECT MAX(v2.`date`)
FROM `votes` v2
WHERE v2.`name` = v.`name`
GROUP BY v.`name` # << after
) = v.`date`
# GROUP BY v.`name` << before
Otherwise, it won't work anymore !