MySQL INNER JOIN select only one row from second table

I have a users table and a payments table, for each user, those of which have payments, may have multiple associated payments in the payments table. I would like to select all users who have payments, but only select their latest payment. I'm trying this SQL but i've never tried nested SQL statements before so I want to know what i'm doing wrong. Appreciate the help

SELECT u.* 
FROM users AS u
    INNER JOIN (
        SELECT p.*
        FROM payments AS p
        ORDER BY date DESC
        LIMIT 1
    )
    ON p.user_id = u.id
WHERE u.package = 1

John Woo

You need to have a subquery to get their latest date per user ID.

SELECT  a.*, c.*
FROM users a 
    INNER JOIN payments c
        ON a.id = c.user_ID
    INNER JOIN
    (
        SELECT user_ID, MAX(date) maxDate
        FROM payments
        GROUP BY user_ID
    ) b ON c.user_ID = b.user_ID AND
            c.date = b.maxDate
WHERE a.package = 1

Matei Mihai

SELECT u.*, p.*, max(p.date)
FROM payments p
JOIN users u ON u.id=p.user_id AND u.package = 1
GROUP BY u.id
ORDER BY p.date DESC

Check out this sqlfiddle

SELECT u.*, p.*
FROM users AS u
INNER JOIN payments AS p ON p.id = (
    SELECT id
    FROM payments AS p2
    WHERE p2.user_id = u.id
    ORDER BY date DESC
    LIMIT 1
)

This solution is better than the accepted answer because it works correctly when there are some payments with the same user and date.

   SELECT u.* 
        FROM users AS u
        INNER JOIN (
            SELECT p.*,
             @num := if(@id = user_id, @num + 1, 1) as row_number,
             @id := user_id as tmp
            FROM payments AS p,
                 (SELECT @num := 0) x,
                 (SELECT @id := 0) y
            ORDER BY p.user_id ASC, date DESC)
        ON (p.user_id = u.id) and (p.row_number=1)
        WHERE u.package = 1

There are two problems with your query:

Every table and subquery needs a name, so you have to name the subquery INNER JOIN (SELECT ...) AS p ON ....
The subquery as you have it only returns one row period, but you actually want one row for each user. For that you need one query to get the max date and then self-join back to get the whole row.

Assuming there are no ties for payments.date, try:

    SELECT u.*, p.* 
    FROM (
        SELECT MAX(p.date) AS date, p.user_id 
        FROM payments AS p
        GROUP BY p.user_id
    ) AS latestP
    INNER JOIN users AS u ON latestP.user_id = u.id
    INNER JOIN payments AS p ON p.user_id = u.id AND p.date = latestP.date
    WHERE u.package = 1

Hassan Dad Khan

Matei Mihai given a simple and efficient solution but it will not work until put a MAX(date) in SELECT part so this query will become:

SELECT u.*, p.*, max(date)
FROM payments p
JOIN users u ON u.id=p.user_id AND u.package = 1
GROUP BY u.id

And order by will not make any difference in grouping but it can order the final result provided by group by. I tried it and it worked for me.

@John Woo's answer helped me solve a similar problem. I've improved upon his answer by setting the correct ordering as well. This has worked for me:

SELECT  a.*, c.*
FROM users a 
    INNER JOIN payments c
        ON a.id = c.user_ID
    INNER JOIN (
        SELECT user_ID, MAX(date) as maxDate FROM
        (
            SELECT user_ID, date
            FROM payments
            ORDER BY date DESC
        ) d
        GROUP BY user_ID
    ) b ON c.user_ID = b.user_ID AND
           c.date = b.maxDate
WHERE a.package = 1

I'm not sure how efficient this is, though.

My answer directly inspired from @valex very usefull, if you need several cols in the ORDER BY clause.

    SELECT u.* 
    FROM users AS u
    INNER JOIN (
        SELECT p.*,
         @num := if(@id = user_id, @num + 1, 1) as row_number,
         @id := user_id as tmp
        FROM (SELECT * FROM payments ORDER BY p.user_id ASC, date DESC) AS p,
             (SELECT @num := 0) x,
             (SELECT @id := 0) y
        )
    ON (p.user_id = u.id) and (p.row_number=1)
    WHERE u.package = 1

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12526194/mysql-inner-join-select-only-one-row-from-second-table

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