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Search for last record and display contents

Annemarie McKeown
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Joined: Nov 07, 2003
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How do you search for the last record entered in your table. What query would I use to do this?
Many thanks.
James Swan
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Joined: Jun 26, 2001
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If you have a table with a nice auto-incrementing primary key column defined as an integer etc, you could issue:
select * from mytable
where myprimarykey = (select max(myprimarykey) from mytable)
Annemarie McKeown
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Thanks James, worked out fine.
 
I agree. Here's the link: http://zeroturnaround.com/jrebel - it saves me about five hours per week
 
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