如果您真正关心的是性能，则可以在表上引入一个名为IsLastInGroup的类型为BIT的新列。

在最后的列上设置为true，并在每一行插入/更新/删除时保持该值。写的速度会变慢，但读的时候会受益。这取决于您的用例，我只建议在以读取为重点的情况下使用它。

因此，您的查询将如下所示:

SELECT * FROM Messages WHERE IsLastInGroup = 1

MariaDB 10.3及更新版本使用GROUP_CONCAT。

这个想法是使用ORDER BY + LIMIT:

SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(id ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1) AS id,
       name,
       GROUP_CONCAT(Other_columns ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1) AS Other_columns
FROM t
GROUP BY name;

db < > fiddle演示

我在https://dzone.com/articles/get-last-record-in-each-mysql-group找到了最好的解决方案

select * from `data` where `id` in (select max(`id`) from `data` group by `name_id`)

一个相当快的方法如下。

SELECT * 
FROM messages a
WHERE Id = (SELECT MAX(Id) FROM messages WHERE a.Name = Name)

结果

Id  Name    Other_Columns
3   A   A_data_3
5   B   B_data_2
6   C   C_data_1

试试这个:

SELECT jos_categories.title AS name,
       joined .catid,
       joined .title,
       joined .introtext
FROM   jos_categories
       INNER JOIN (SELECT *
                   FROM   (SELECT `title`,
                                  catid,
                                  `created`,
                                  introtext
                           FROM   `jos_content`
                           WHERE  `sectionid` = 6
                           ORDER  BY `id` DESC) AS yes
                   GROUP  BY `yes`.`catid` DESC
                   ORDER  BY `yes`.`created` DESC) AS joined
         ON( joined.catid = jos_categories.id )  

使用子查询返回正确的分组，因为您已经完成了一半。

试试这个:

select
    a.*
from
    messages a
    inner join 
        (select name, max(id) as maxid from messages group by name) as b on
        a.id = b.maxid

如果它不是id，你想要的最大值:

select
    a.*
from
    messages a
    inner join 
        (select name, max(other_col) as other_col 
         from messages group by name) as b on
        a.name = b.name
        and a.other_col = b.other_col

通过这种方式，可以避免在子查询中进行相关子查询和/或排序，这往往非常缓慢/低效。