I have:
TABLE MESSAGES
message_id | conversation_id | from_user | timestamp | message
I want:
1. SELECT * WHERE from_user <> id
2. GROUP BY conversation_id
3. SELECT in every group row with MAX(timestamp) **(if there are two same timestamps in a group use second factor as highest message_id)** !!!
4. then results SORT BY timestamp
to have result:
2|145|xxx|10000|message
6|1743|yyy|999|message
7|14|bbb|899|message
with eliminated
1|145|xxx|10000|message <- has same timestamp(10000) as message(2) belongs to the same conversation(145) but message id is lowest
5|1743|me|1200|message <- has message_from == me
example group with same timestamp
i want from this group row 3 but i get row 2 from query
SELECT max(message_timestamp), message_id, message_text, message_conversationId
FROM MESSAGES
WHERE message_from <> 'me'
GROUP BY message_conversationId
ORDER by message_Timestamp DESC
what is on my mind to do union from message_id & timestamp and then get max???
Your query is based on non-standard use of
GROUP BY
(I think SQLite allows that only for compatibility with MySQL) and I'm not at all sure that it will produce determinate results all the time.Plus it uses
MAX()
on concatenated columns. Unless you somehow ensure that the two (concatenated) columns have fixed widths, the results will not be accurate for that reason as well.I would write the query like this:
ok it was more simple than I thought:
basically to change select from:
to:
so it will search for max on concatenation of timestamp and message_id
ps. after a digging - it's working only if message id is growing with timestamp ( order of insertion is preserved )
edit:
edit2 :
so why it works ?
Try below sql to achieve your purpose by group by twice.
http://goo.gl/MyZjyU