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can you please help me with sql querry for 'finding last record in a table'
Sep 15 '06 #1
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Prarthana Choudhary
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Hi,
Inherently, a relational database table is a set. Sets are, by definition, unordered.
So every select statement will show you records in different order , i mean no order, it will be in random order.Getting the last row requires that you have some way of ordering the rows in the database.
If you do not have an identity column, you would need to have some other "identity-like" column, such as a column that holds the last modified date of a row or atleast some serial number as primary key .
Otherwise, SQL Server has no way of identifying the last record.
Sep 15 '06 #2
ramasp
19 New Member
Hi,
Answer for your question
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select top 1 * from tablename order by column name desc
Sep 21 '06 #3

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