MySQL wrong results with GROUP BY and ORDER BY - mysql

Question

I have a table user_comission_configuration_history and I need to select the last Comissions configuration from a user_id.
Tuples:
I'm trying with many queries, but, the results are wrong. My last SQL:
SELECT *
FROM(
SELECT * FROM user_comission_configuration_history
ORDER BY on_date DESC
) AS ordered_history
WHERE user_id = 408002
GROUP BY comission_id
The result of above query is:
But, the correct result is:
id user_id comission_id value type on_date
24 408002 12 0,01 PERCENTUAL 2014-07-23 10:45:42
23 408002 4 0,03 CURRENCY 2014-07-23 10:45:41
21 408002 6 0,015 PERCENTUAL 2014-07-23 10:45:18
What is wrong in my SQL?

Answer 1

This is your query:
SELECT *
FROM (SELECT *
FROM user_comission_configuration_history
ORDER BY on_date DESC
) AS ordered_history
WHERE user_id = 408002
GROUP BY comission_id;
One major problem with your query is that it uses a MySQL extension to group by that MySQL explicitly warns against. The extension is the use of other columns in the in theselect that are not in the group by or in aggregation functions. The warning (here) is:
MySQL extends the use of GROUP BY so that the select list can refer to
nonaggregated columns not named in the GROUP BY clause. This means
that the preceding query is legal in MySQL. You can use this feature
to get better performance by avoiding unnecessary column sorting and
grouping. However, this is useful primarily when all values in each
nonaggregated column not named in the GROUP BY are the same for each
group. The server is free to choose any value from each group, so
unless they are the same, the values chosen are indeterminate.
So, the values returned in the columns are indeterminate.
Here is a pretty efficient way to get what you want (with "comission" spelled correctly in English):
SELECT *
FROM user_commission_configuration_history cch
WHERE NOT EXISTS (select 1
from user_commission_configuration_history cch2
where cch2.user_id = cch.user_id and
cch2.commission_id = cch.commission_id and
cch2.on_date > cch.on_date
) AND
cch.user_id = 408002;

Answer 2

Here's one way to do what your trying. It gets the max date for each user_ID and commissionID and then joins this back to the base table to limit the results to just the max date for each commissionID.
SELECT *
FROM user_comission_configuration_history A
INNER JOIN (
SELECT User_ID, Comission_Id, max(on_Date) mOn_Date
FROM user_comission_configuration_history
Group by User-Id, Comission_Id
) B
on B.User_ID = A.User_Id
and B.Comission_Id = A.Comission_ID
and B.mOnDate=A.on_date
WHERE user_id = 408002
ORDER BY on_Date desc;