SQL Statement for gouping messages - mysql

Question

I have the following code and I'm trying to group the messages
Here is a picture of database table and how the groups should be
and here is the SQL statement
SELECT a.* FROM `user_messages` `a`
JOIN (
SELECT `sender`, MAX(`id`) `last_id` FROM `user_messages` WHERE `receiver` = '1' GROUP BY `sender`
) `b`
ON `a`.`sender` = `b`.`sender` AND `a`.`id` = `b`.`last_id`
WHERE `a`.`receiver` = '1'
ORDER BY `id` DESC
OUTPUT:
I want to get somehow the last record where "receiver" is not my id, but "sender" is and name receiver column as "id" or something.
...so what i want is following result:
id | msg
13852 123
48 Hello!
17 321
Here is a fiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/e06d57/3/0

Answer 1

To map my generic answer to your particular use case (using example 1):
SELECT receiver AS id, msg
FROM user_messages outerTable
WHERE NOT EXISTS
( SELECT *
FROM user_messages innerTable
WHERE innerTable.sender = outerTable.sender
AND innerTable.receiver = outerTable.receiver
AND innerTable.added > outerTable.added
)
AND sender = 1

Answer 2

This is a very common use case. There are several ways to write this code. Depending on the SQL engine used, they will be of different speeds.
I will use fairly generic column names. Tweak as needed.
SELECT common_id, msg
FROM myTable outerTable
WHERE NOT EXISTS
( SELECT *
FROM myTable innerTable
WHERE innerTable.common_id = outerTable.common_id
AND innerTable.time > outerTable.time
)
Please note that if there are two rows with identical common_id and time columns, then both will show up in the output. You can replace the > with >= to hide both of those rows.
The other common approach is kind of difficult to make sense of, but here goes. Notice the similarities to the NOT EXISTS approach.
SELECT outerTable.common_id, outerTable.msg
FROM myTable outerTable
LEFT JOIN myTable innerTable
ON innerTable.common_id = outerTable.common_id
AND innerTable.time > outerTable.time
WHERE innerTable.common_id IS NULL

Answer 3

According to your description, you seem to want something like this:
select um.receiver as id, um.msg
from user_messages um
where um.sender = 1 and
um.id = (select max(um2.id)
from user_messages um2
where um2.msg = um.msg and um2.receiver <> 1 and um.sender = 1
);
It doesn't produce the desired output, but that is because the output is inconsistent with the text description.