Re: Right syntax for max value??

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twistednetadmin wrote:
> I am making a table at my homepage that automatically collects the
> latest news from mysql db.
>  I have got it to work at my own server at home, but not at
> www.torewestre.com (my remote site)
> 
> Local settings:(WinXP Pro) Apache 2.0.54, PHP 5.0.4 and MySQL 4.1.11
> 
> Remote settings:(Unix) Apache 1.3.27, PHP 4.3.4 and MySQL 3.23.54
> 
> This is the query that works on localhost:
> 
> 
> $getnewstitle = "SELECT newstitle FROM `news` WHERE news_id = ( SELECT
> max( news_id ) FROM news ) ";

MySQL 3.x doesnt support sub-querys


> What it does:
> 
> collects the newstitle from the field where PRIMARY key(news_id) is
> the highest auto_increment number.
> 
> This works just as excpected on localhost but not on remote.
> 
> Does anybody know the right syntax?

   SELECT `newstitle`
     FROM `news`
 ORDER BY `news_id` DESC
    LIMIT 1


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