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How to select most recent date out of a set of several possible timestamps in MySQL?
You can select most recent date out of a set of several possible timestamps with the help of ORDER BY clause.
The syntax is as follows
SELECT yourColumnName1,yourColumnName2,...N FROM yourTableName ORDER BY yourTimestampColumnName DESC LIMIT 1;
To understand the above syntax, let us create a table. The query to create a table is as follows
mysql> create table MostRecentDateDemo - > ( - > Id int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, - > Name varchar(10), - > ShippingDate timestamp - > ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.65 sec)
Insert some records in the table using insert command. The query is as follows
mysql> insert into MostRecentDateDemo(Name,ShippingDate) values('Larry',date_add(now(),interval -1 month));
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.19 sec)
mysql> insert into MostRecentDateDemo(Name,ShippingDate) values('Mike','2018-09-12 19:34:45');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.43 sec)
mysql> insert into MostRecentDateDemo(Name,ShippingDate) values('Sam','2017-11-24 14:30:40');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.19 sec)
mysql> insert into MostRecentDateDemo(Name,ShippingDate) values('Carol','2019-02-12 11:30:41');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.56 sec)
mysql> insert into MostRecentDateDemo(Name,ShippingDate) values('David',now());
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.22 sec)
mysql> insert into MostRecentDateDemo(Name,ShippingDate) values('John','2018-12-31 12:59:58');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.15 sec)Display all records from the table using select statement.
The query is as follows
mysql> select *from MostRecentDateDemo;
The following is the output
+----+-------+---------------------+ | Id | Name | ShippingDate | +----+-------+---------------------+ | 1 | Larry | 2019-01-14 17:17:08 | | 2 | Mike | 2018-09-12 19:34:45 | | 3 | Sam | 2017-11-24 14:30:40 | | 4 | Carol | 2019-02-12 11:30:41 | | 5 | David | 2019-02-14 17:19:34 | | 6 | John | 2018-12-31 12:59:58 | +----+-------+---------------------+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Here is the query to select most recent date
mysql> select Id,Name,ShippingDate from MostRecentDateDemo order by ShippingDate desc limit 1;
The following is the output
+----+-------+---------------------+ | Id | Name | ShippingDate | +----+-------+---------------------+ | 5 | David | 2019-02-14 17:19:34 | +----+-------+---------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Updated on: 30-Jul-2019
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