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Author  Message        tseyfarth          Post subject: How to request latest 
db update from date/time field?Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2013 5:03 pm                 
        
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:14 pm
Posts: 918                Hello All,

Can anyone suggest the sql call to request the last update to a db?  The db 
contains a field for Date and Time. I am having trouble getting my mind around 
the correct request call.

Thank you,
Tim   
                             Top                elChupete          Post 
subject: Re: How to request latest db update from date/time field?Posted: Mon 
Jun 03, 2013 5:34 pm                                 
Joined: Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:50 am
Posts: 348
Location: Hamburg, Germany                Does every record contain a 
datetimefield when the record has been inserted / updated?

How is the date formated? In best case it is formated as sql date and each 
record has one.
Then something like

Select datetime from table order by date desc

Should do the trick.

The first record of the resulting record set isthe last date when a record was 
updated / inserted

You might also want to check the sql max function

Select max(datetime) from table      
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                             Top                tseyfarth          Post 
subject: Re: How to request latest db update from date/time field?Posted: Mon 
Jun 03, 2013 6:01 pm                         
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:14 pm
Posts: 918                Thank you.

Each record is updated/inserted with a SQLDateTime data string in the field.

I will also have a look at the Sql MAX function too.
Tim   
                             Top                J.Hansen          Post subject: 
Re: How to request latest db update from date/time field?Posted: Tue Jun 04, 
2013 12:59 am                         
Joined: Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:20 am
Posts: 84                tseyfarth wrote:Hello All,

Can anyone suggest the sql call to request the last update to a db?  The db 
contains a field for Date and Time. I am having trouble getting my mind around 
the correct request call.

Thank you,
Tim


For more informations, you might have a look on these two links:

http://www.w3schools.com/sql/sql_quickref.asp

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/mysql/index.htm   
                             Top                tseyfarth          Post 
subject: Re: How to request latest db update from date/time field?Posted: Tue 
Jun 04, 2013 1:34 am                         
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:14 pm
Posts: 918                Thank you J. Hansen!

Tim   
                             Top                JeremK          Post subject: 
Re: How to request latest db update from date/time field?Posted: Tue Jun 04, 
2013 3:18 am                         
Joined: Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:03 am
Posts: 303
Location: Paris-La Défense, France                You could use this query:

Select * from mytable order by datefield desc limit 0, 1

This will select all fields from "mytable".
It will order the data on "datefield" column and take the highest value.      
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