MySQL select DISTINCT by highest value

Question

I have a table full of magazines, and need to extract the latest unique issue of each magazine.

Ive tried

    SELECT DISTINCT
    magazine
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Answer 1

This looks like what you need:

SELECT id, MAX(onsale) AS onsale, magazine FROM magazines GROUP BY magazine ORDER BY onsale DESC;

Check it out at:

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/38e78/3

UPDATE: I've changed query a little, to return MAX(onsale)