What's the proper SQL syntax to get the last record in a table.

Depends on the contents of the table.

Depends on the contents of the table.

I am going to sort it based on bulletin_id which is an auto numbering column and I want to get another column called bulletin_number.

If bulletin_id is an autonumber column, then you can sort it by bulletin_id
desc and limit 1. That will give you the row with the highest bulletin_id.

select * from foo_table
order by bulletin_id desc limit 1

SELECT MAX(primary_key_field) AS MaxID
FROM some_table

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"PopcornCoder" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> What's the proper SQL syntax to get the last record in a table.

select somefields
from sometables
where somefile = (select max(somefield)
from sometable)
etc

The best way if you are using MS SQL is;

Select MAX(bulletin_id) as LastRecord
From (your tablename)

[Q]Select MAX(bulletin_id) as LastRecord....[/Q]This would return the last bulletin_id, not the last entire record.... Dan's suggestion is more likely to give the correct results.

Phil