How to remove past data from your search results and only display the current one

Question

Here is the code I wrote in the $sql variable in my includes file:

SELECT 
  itemName, itemRate, itemStatus, itemTrend 
FROM 
  items 
WHERE 
  itemName LIKE '%$search%' 
ORDER BY 
  rowID DESC

and here is what the results look like:

I get both past data and current data. I only need to display the current data. Thanks if you can help!

Answer 1

What do you mean by past data and current data? Is there a date column so we can say it's new data?

If you want to get the last item only, then this will do the trick:

SELECT itemName, itemRate, itemStatus, itemTrend FROM items WHERE itemName LIKE '%$search%' ORDER BY rowID DESC LIMIT 1

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SELECT itemName, itemRate, itemStatus, itemTrend FROM items WHERE itemName LIKE '%$search%' GROUP BY itemName ORDER BY rowID DESC