How to get last record ?

Dear all,
I am writing a store procedure which should return the last entry whcih has
been written in a database table.
That store procedure will always return the last recorded entry from a table
How to do that ?
regards
sergeHi Serge,
What is the "last" record in your case ?
SQL Server doesn=B4t care about the order of data unless you specify an
Order in a Select query or you can determine the last entry via an
identity column or a column which store the modified date.
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.|||You need to add datetime column and insert the value when you add a record.
Then you can select the most recent record in the table.
something like
select top 1 <column list>
from table
order by Time_inserted DESC
Thats offcourse if you mean 'last' by time of insert. If you want to handle
updates ('LastChanged') read about timestamp in the BOL.
MC
"serge calderara" <sergecalderara@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Dear all,
> I am writing a store procedure which should return the last entry whcih
> has
> been written in a database table.
> That store procedure will always return the last recorded entry from a
> table
> How to do that ?
> regards
> serge|||If you don't record the information about which row was the last then
SQL Server won't do it for you. The answer is something like:
SELECT ,,,
FROM your_table
WHERE created_date =
(SELECT MAX(created_date)
FROM your_table) ;
David Portas
SQL Server MVP
--|||Hi Jens,
nased on that, I have a column in my database table Identified as START_TIME
which is of type DataTime.
Based on that column, the "last" record will be the one who have the biggest
DateTIme value.
any tip ?
"Jens" wrote:

> Hi Serge,
> What is the "last" record in your case ?
> SQL Server doesn′t care about the order of data unless you specify an
> Order in a Select query or you can determine the last entry via an
> identity column or a column which store the modified date.
> HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
>|||Thnaks it works
"MC" wrote:

> You need to add datetime column and insert the value when you add a record
.
> Then you can select the most recent record in the table.
> something like
> select top 1 <column list>
> from table
> order by Time_inserted DESC
> Thats offcourse if you mean 'last' by time of insert. If you want to handl
e
> updates ('LastChanged') read about timestamp in the BOL.
> MC
>
> "serge calderara" <sergecalderara@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:EB64CB5C-40D0-42E2-A56B-31205AB24C7D@.microsoft.com...
>
>