LEFT JOIN on Max Value

Suppose I have the following two tables:

STUDENT
studentid   lastname   firstname
1           Smith      John
2           Drew       Nancy

STUDENT_STORY
studentid   dateline   storyid   status
1           1328313600 10        2
1           1328313601 9         1
2           1328313602 14        2
2           1328313603 12        1

Now, I need an SQL query that would select each student along with the latest story for that student in the student story table.

I am trying this:

SELECT s.*, ss.*
FROM student AS s
LEFT JOIN (
    SELECT *
    FROM student_story
    WHERE student_story.studentid = s.studentid
    ORDER BY dateline DESC LIMIT 1
) AS ss ON (ss.studentid = s.studentid)

However, this query does not work. It complains about s.studentid being an unknown field in the where clause of the sub query.

Please suggest how I can achieve what I'm trying to do.

Thanks.

Solution

Try something like this:

SELECT
  s.*,
  ss.*
FROM
  student AS s
LEFT JOIN
  student_story AS ss
ON (ss.studentid = s.studentid)
WHERE ss.dateline = (
  SELECT
    MAX(dateline)
  FROM
    student_story AS ss2
  WHERE
    ss2.studentid = s.studentid
)