Laravel Eloquent select all rows with max created_at

Question

I have a table that contains:

id  seller_id   amount   created_at
1   10          100      2017-06-01 00:00:00
2   15          250      2017-06-01 00:00:00
....
154 10          10000    2017-12-24 00:00:00
255 15          25000    2017-12-24 00:00:00

I want to get all the latest rows for each individual seller_id. I can get the latest row for one like this:

$sales = Snapshot::where('seller_id', '=', 15)
    ->orderBy('created_at', 'DESC')
    ->first();

How do I get only the latest row for each seller?

Answer 1

To get latest record for each seller_id you can use following query

select s.*
from snapshot s
left join snapshot s1 on s.seller_id = s1.seller_id
and s.created_at < s1.created_at
where s1.seller_id is null

Using query builder you might rewrite it as

DB::table('snapshot as s')
  ->select('s.*')
  ->leftJoin('snapshot as s1', function ($join) {
        $join->on('s.seller_id', '=', 's1.seller_id')
             ->whereRaw(DB::raw('s.created_at < s1.created_at'));
   })
  ->whereNull('s1.seller_id')
  ->get();