Getting the last record in SQL in WHERE condition

Question

i have loanTable that contain two field loan_id and status

loan_id status
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1       0
2       9
1       6
         


        

Answer 1

But if last = last inserted, that's not possible for current schema, until a PK addition:

select top 1 status, loan_id
from loanTable
where loan_id = 1
order by id desc -- PK