Hi, The way I think I'd approach it is to use an outer join where table a is joined to a subquery where the subquery returns only the max timestamp from table b. Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Cossey [mailto:graham.cossey@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thu, March 06, 2008 5:17 PM > To: J. Hill; php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Help with JOIN query > > > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:54 PM, J. Hill <jh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I may be a little confused: the desire is to return all the > rows from > > TableA that match the record_id of a row in TableB that has the MAX > > timestamp? > > > > If so, why not something like: > > > > SELECT * FROM TableA a, TableB b WHERE a.record_id=b.record_id && > > timestamp=(SELECT MAX(timestamp) FROM TableB) ORDER BY action; > > > > I'm guessing I'm confused, that it's something more > complicated you're > > looking for. > > > > Thanks Krister and all for your help thus far. > > Jeff, I'm after all rows from TableA then the latest action from > TableB for each selected record in TableA. > > I'm starting to think maybe I should build an array of results using 2 > queries then sort the array using PHP functionality, but I'd rather do > it in MySQL if it's possible. > > Graham > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
