ORDER BY date and time BEFORE GROUP BY name in mysql

Question

i have a table like this:

name    date         time
tom | 2011-07-04 | 01:09:52
tom | 2011-07-04 | 01:09:52
mad | 2011-07-04 | 02:10:53
mad | 2009-06-03 | 00         


        

Answer 1

This worked for me:

SELECT *
FROM your_table
WHERE id IN (
    SELECT MAX(id)
    FROM your_table
    GROUP BY name
);