get rows from a table where value of field x is maximum - mysql

Question

I have two tables myTable and myTable2 in a mysql database:
CREATE TABLE myTable (
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
number INT,
version INT,
date DATE
) ENGINE MyISAM;
INSERT INTO myTable
(`id`, `number`, `version`, `date`)
VALUES
(1, '123', '1', '2016-01-12'),
(2, '123', '2', '2016-01-13'),
(3, '124', '1', '2016-01-14'),
(4, '124', '2', '2016-01-15'),
(5, '124', '3', '2016-01-16'),
(6, '125', '1', '2016-01-17')
;
CREATE TABLE myTable2 (
id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
myTable_id INT
) ENGINE MyISAM;
INSERT INTO myTable2
(`id`, `myTable_id`)
VALUES
(1, 1),
(2, 1),
(3, 2),
(4, 2),
(5, 3),
(6, 3),
(7, 4),
(8, 4),
(9, 4),
(10, 5),
(11, 6)
;
The field myTable2.myTable_id is a foreign key of myTable.Id.
I would like to get all the rows from myTable where myTable2.myTable_id = myTable.Id and the value of the field version in myTable is the maximum for every corresponding value for the field number in myTable.
I tried something like this:
SELECT
*
FROM
myTable,
myTable2
WHERE
myTable.version = (SELECT MAX(myTable.version) FROM myTable)
But the above query does not return the correct data. The correct query should output this:
Id number version date
2 123 2 2016-01-13
5 124 3 2016-01-16
6 125 1 2016-01-17
Please help!

Answer 1

One way to do this is to get the max version for each number in myTable in a derived table and join with that:
SELECT DISTINCT
m.*
FROM
myTable m
JOIN
myTable2 m2 ON m.id = m2.myTable_id
JOIN
(
SELECT number, MAX(version) AS max_version
FROM myTable
GROUP BY number
) AS derived_table
ON m.number = derived_table.number
AND m.version = derived_table.max_version
With your sample data this produces a result like this:
id number version date
6 125 1 2016-01-17
5 124 3 2016-01-16
2 123 2 2016-01-13

Answer 2

your Query is logically wrong. Here is the correct one
SELECT
*
FROM
myTable,
myTable2
WHERE
(myTable.version,myTable.number) in
(SELECT MAX(myTable.version),number FROM myTable group by number)
and myTable.id=myTable2.id
Here is the sqlfiddle http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/74a67/4/0

Answer 3

This is the query posted for the previous edited question
SELECT * FROM myTable
inner join myTable2 on myTable.id = myTable2.mytable_id
WHERE (version, number) in
(SELECT MAX(version), number FROM myTable group by number)

Answer 4

Try this solution with using subquery simply as:
# Selecting desired result..
SELECT t1.id, t1.number, t1.version, t1.date
FROM myTable As t1 JOIN
# subquery to select max version and its corresponding
# number form myTable
(SELECT number, max(version) As max_ver FROM myTable
GROUP BY number
) As t2 ON t1.number = t2.number and t1.version = t2.max_ver
# Now checking for foreign key..
WHERE t1.id IN (SELECT mytable_id FROM myTable2);
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