get the row with the highest value in MySQL

Question

I want to get the highest value but group by another field on the same table ex:

seqid + fileid + name

1  |    1 | n1
2  |    1 | n2
3  |    2 | n3
         


        

Answer 1

SELECT seqid, fileid, name
FROM tbl JOIN (
    SELECT MAX(seqid) maxSeq, fileid fileid
    FROM tbl
    GROUP BY fileid
    ) tg ON tml.seqid = tg.maxSeq AND tbl.fileid = tg.fileid