MySQL JOIN the most recent row only?

Question

I have a table customer that stores a customer_id, email and reference. There is an additional table customer_data that stores a historical record of the changes made to the

Answer 1

You can also do this

SELECT    CONCAT(title, ' ', forename, ' ', surname) AS name
FROM      customer c
LEFT JOIN  (
              SELECT * FROM  customer_data ORDER BY id DESC
          ) customer_data ON (customer_data.customer_id = c.customer_id)
GROUP BY  c.customer_id          
WHERE     CONCAT(title, ' ', forename, ' ', surname) LIKE '%Smith%' 
LIMIT     10, 20;

Answer 2

SELECT CONCAT(title,' ',forename,' ',surname) AS name * FROM customer c 
INNER JOIN customer_data d on c.id=d.customer_id WHERE name LIKE '%Smith%' 

i think you need to change c.customer_id to c.id

else update table structure