MySQL return first row of a joined table

Question

I have two tables (country & ducks) where the country table has every country in the world and the ducks table has a list of ducks with a country_id field to link to the

Answer 1

You could try just adding a selecting join, for

SELECT c.*, d.*
FROM country c 
INNER JOIN ducks d ON c.id = d.country_id
LEFT JOIN ducks d2 ON d.country_id = d2.country_id AND d2.rating > d.rating
WHERE d2.id IS NULL