How to get rows with max date when grouping in MySQL? - mysql

Question

I have a table with prices and dates on product:
id
product
price
date
I create a new record when price change. And I have a table like this:
id product price date
1 1 10 2014-01-01
2 1 20 2014-02-17
3 1 5 2014-03-28
4 2 25 2014-01-05
5 2 12 2014-02-08
6 2 30 2014-03-12
I want to get last price for all products. But when I group with "product", I can't get a price from a row with maximum date.
I can use MAX(), MIN() or COUNT() function in request, but I need a result based on other value.
I want something like this in final:
product price date
1 5 2014-03-28
2 30 2014-03-12
But I don't know how. May be like this:
SELECT product, {price with max date}, {max date}
FROM table
GROUP BY product

Answer 1

Alternatively, you can have subquery to get the latest get for every product and join the result on the table itself to get the other columns.
SELECT a.*
FROM tableName a
INNER JOIN
(
SELECT product, MAX(date) mxdate
FROM tableName
GROUP BY product
) b ON a.product = b.product
AND a.date = b.mxdate

Answer 2

I think the easiest way is a substring_index()/group_concat() trick:
SELECT product,
substring_index(group_concat(price order by date desc), ',', 1) as PriceOnMaxDate
max(date)
FROM table
GROUP BY product;
Another way, that might be more efficient than a group by is:
select p.*
from table t
where not exists (select 1
from table t2
where t2.product = t.product and
t2.date > t.date
);
This says: "Get me all rows from the table where the same product does not have a larger date." That is a fancy way of saying "get me the row with the maximum date for each product."
Note that there is a subtle difference: the second form will return all rows that on the maximum date, if there are duplicates.
Also, for performance an index on table(product, date) is recommended.

Answer 3

You can use a subquery that groups by product and return the maximum date for every product, and join this subquery back to the products table:
SELECT
p.product,
p.price,
p.date
FROM
products p INNER JOIN (
SELECT
product,
MAX(date) AS max_date
FROM
products
GROUP BY
product) m
ON p.product = m.product AND p.date = m.max_date

Answer 4

SELECT
product,
price,
date
FROM
(SELECT
product,
price,
date
FROM table_name ORDER BY date DESC) AS t1
GROUP BY product;