SQL LAST () function
LAST () function
LAST () function returns the value of the specified column in the last record.
SQL LAST () syntax
SELECT LAST(column_name) FROM table_name;
Note: Only MS Access support LAST () function.
SQL Server, MySQL and Oracle in SQL LAST () workspace
SQL Server syntax
SELECT TOP 1 column_name
FROM table_name
ORDER BY column_name DESC;
ORDER BY column_name DESC;
Examples
SELECT TOP 1 name FROM Websites
ORDER BY id DESC;
ORDER BY id DESC;
MySQL syntax
SELECT column_name FROM table_name
ORDER BY column_name DESC
LIMIT 1;
ORDER BY column_name DESC
LIMIT 1;
Examples
SELECT name FROM Websites
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 1;
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 1;
Oracle Syntax
SELECT column_name FROM table_name
ORDER BY column_name DESC
WHERE ROWNUM <=1;
ORDER BY column_name DESC
WHERE ROWNUM <=1;
Examples
SELECT name FROM Websites
ORDER BY id DESC
WHERE ROWNUM <=1;
ORDER BY id DESC
WHERE ROWNUM <=1;
The demo database
In this tutorial, we will use w3big sample database.
The following is a selected "Websites" table data:
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+ | id | name | url | alexa | country | +----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+ | 1 | Google | https://www.google.cm/ | 1 | USA | | 2 | 淘宝 | https://www.taobao.com/ | 13 | CN | | 3 | 本教程 | http://www.w3big.com/ | 4689 | CN | | 4 | 微博 | http://weibo.com/ | 20 | CN | | 5 | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ | 3 | USA | | 6 | 百度 | https://www.baidu.com/ | 4 | CN | | 7 | stackoverflow | http://stackoverflow.com/ | 0 | IND | +----+---------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
SQL LAST () examples
The following SQL statement select "Websites" table "name" column of the last record value:
Examples
SELECT name FROM Websites
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 1;
ORDER BY id DESC
LIMIT 1;
SQL implementation of the above results are as follows:
