尝试使用MAX()聚合结果时奇怪的MySQL行为

时间:2012-07-05 16:30:42

标签: mysql

所以我正在使用的以下查询产生4行:

SELECT 
  `DMV`.`id` AS `dmvID`,
  `D`.`id` AS `documentID`,
  `DMV`.`name` AS `documentName`,
  `U`.`username` AS `creatorUserName`,
  `D`.`folder_id` AS `folderID`,
  `D`.`created` AS `createDate`,
  `SL`.`name` AS `statusName`,
  `UM`.`username` AS `modifiedUserName`,
  `DMV`.`version_created` AS `modifiedDate`,
  `UO`.`username` AS `ownerUserName`,
  `DTL`.`name` AS `documentTypeName` 
FROM 
  `document_metadata_version` `DMV`
  LEFT JOIN `documents` `D` 
    ON `DMV`.`document_id` = `D`.`id`
  LEFT JOIN `users` `U` 
    ON `D`.`creator_id` = `U`.`id`
  LEFT JOIN `users` `UM` 
    ON `D`.`modified_user_id` = `UM`.`id`
  LEFT JOIN `users` `UO` 
    ON `D`.`owner_id` = `UO`.`id`
  LEFT JOIN `status_lookup` `SL` 
    ON `D`.`status_id` = `SL`.`id`
  LEFT JOIN `document_types_lookup` `DTL` 
    ON `DMV`.`document_type_id` = `DTL`.`id`
WHERE
    DMV.document_id = 543433
;

为了简洁起见,我将省略所有与手头问题无关的无关字段。 dmvIDdocumentTypeName(第一列和最后一列)的结果为:

+--------+------------------+
| dmvID  | documentTypeName |
+--------+------------------+
| 566053 | Default          |
| 566183 | Default          |
| 681391 | ASCO Documents   |
| 681411 | ASCO Documents   |
+--------+------------------+

我只对最后一行感兴趣,所以很自然地,我会修改SELECT语句以在dmvID上使用MAX():

SELECT 
  MAX(`DMV`.`id`) AS `dmvID`,
# Rest of query unchanged

返回:

+--------+------------------+
| dmvID  | documentTypeName |
+--------+------------------+
| 681411 | Default          |
+--------+------------------+

从上面注意到681411实际上是MAX(),但关联的documentTypeName不是dmvID 681411的等价值,我认为它与dmvID匹配566053如何让它返回:

+--------+------------------+
| dmvID  | documentTypeName |
+--------+------------------+
| 681411 | ASCO Documents   |
+--------+------------------+

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:3)

如果您只需要该列中具有最高值的单行,请使用ORDER BY和LIMIT 1(而不是使用MAX()的聚合查询。)

...
WHERE
DMV.document_id = 543433
ORDER BY dmvID DESC
LIMIT 1;