MySQL - Return the last record on the second table then return all in the first table

Question

I have two tables customers and orders, below is the structure.

Table - contacts

id

Table - orders

id
contact_id

How can I select all from contacts table but only select the latest record from the orders table?

SELECT contacts.*, 
       Max(orders.id) 
FROM   contacts 
       LEFT JOIN orders 
              ON contacts.id = orders.contact_id 
GROUP  BY contacts.id; 

But I always gets NULL if I use LEFT JOIN , it only have value if I use INNER JOIN .

Answer 1

You can try to use UNION like

select * from orders order by id desc limit 1
UNION
select * from contacts 

Answer 2

select the latest record in orders and group it first

select contacts.*, orders.id
from contacts
left join (select max(id) as id, contact_id
           from orders
           group by contact_id) orders
     on contacts.id = orders.contact_id

Answer 3

为了汇总联系人表中所有列的最大值，请按功能分组后添加联系人表中的所有列

Answer 4

I trust the answer provided by Alex should work well. The following query shall list all records from contacts and the last id from orders table.

SELECT 
   c.*, 
   (SELECT Max(o.id) FROM orders  o 
    INNER JOIN contacts c1 ON o.id=c1.id
    )as last_order_id
FROM contacts c