How to select single row based on the max value in multiple rows [duplicate]

Answer 1

Update3 variable group_concat_max_len has a minvalue = 4 so we can't use it. But you can:

select 
  name, 
  SUBSTRING_INDEX(group_concat(major order by major desc),',', 1) as major, 
  SUBSTRING_INDEX(group_concat(minor order by major desc, minor desc),',', 1)as minor, 
  SUBSTRING_INDEX(group_concat(revision order by major desc, minor desc, revision desc),',', 1) as revision
from your_table
group by name;

this was tested here and no, the previous version does not provide wrong results, it had only the problem with number of concatenated values.