Get the latest date from grouped MySQL data

Question

I have the following data in my database:

|NO | model | date     | 
+---+-------+----------+
|1  | bee   |2011-12-01|
|2  | bee   |2011-12-05|
|3  | bee   |2         


        

Answer 1

This should work:

SELECT model, date FROM doc GROUP BY model ORDER BY date DESC

It just sort the dates from last to first and by grouping it only grabs the first one.