SQL how to find rows which have highest value of specific column

Question

For example, the table has columns MYINDEX and NAME.

MYINDEX | NAME
=================
1       | BOB
2       | BOB
3       | CHARLES

Ho do

Answer 1

If you want to skip the inner join, you could do:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE NAME = 'BOB' ORDER BY MYINDEX DESC LIMIT 1;