I have a table that resembles the following:
id
type
created (date).
What I want is to return the most recently created item of each type. So it will return one item (most recent) for each type.
E.G.
id:1 type:A created:2011
id:2 type:A created:2008
id:3 type: B created:2009
id:4 type: B created:2010
This will return with record id 1 and 4.
this works using a self join
select T1.* from table t1 LEFT JOIN table t2
ON t1.type = t2.type and t1.created < t2.created
where t2.id is null