How to get Last record from Sqlite?

Question

I have a one table question_table and one ImageButton (Back). I need to get the last inserted record from the database after clicking on t

Answer 1

Another option is to use SQLites LAST_VALUE() function in the following way.

Given this table:

+--------+---------+-------+
| OBJECT |  STATUS |  TIME |
+--------+---------+-------+
|        |         |       |
| 1      |  ON     |  100  |
|        |         |       |
| 1      |  OFF    |  102  |
|        |         |       |
| 1      |  ON     |  103  |
|        |         |       |
| 2      |  ON     |  101  |
|        |         |       |
| 2      |  OFF    |  102  |
|        |         |       |
| 2      |  ON     |  103  |
|        |         |       |
| 3      |  OFF    |  102  |
|        |         |       |
| 3      |  ON     |  103  |
+--------+---------+-------+

You can get the last status of every object with the following query

SELECT                           
    DISTINCT OBJECT,             -- Only unique rows
    LAST_VALUE(STATUS) OVER (    -- The last value of the status column
        PARTITION BY OBJECT      -- Taking into account rows with the same value in the object column
        ORDER by time asc        -- "Last" when sorting the rows of every object by the time column in ascending order
        RANGE BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND UNBOUNDED FOLLOWING    -- Take all rows in the patition
    ) as lastStatus
FROM
    TABLE

The result would look like:

+--------+--------------+
| OBJECT |  LAST_STATUS |
+--------+--------------+
|        |              |
| 1      |  ON          |
|        |              |
| 2      |  ON          |
|        |              |
| 3      |  ON          |
+--------+--------------+

Answer 2

in sqlite, there is a table called sqlite_sequence, this table contains the table name and it's last id number (if the id is auto incremented).

So, to get the last row in a table just put :

Select * from TABLENAME where id=(SELECT * from sqlite_sequence where name ='TABLENAME')

Answer 3

Just simple, you can move with Cursor moveToLast(); method provides to move to the last record

cursor.moveToLast();

Answer 4

The previous answers assume that there is an incrementing integer ID column, so MAX(ID) gives the last row. But sometimes the keys are of text type, not ordered in a predictable way. So in order to take the last 1 or N rows (#Nrows#) we can follow a different approach:

Select * From [#TableName#]  LIMIT #Nrows# offset cast((SELECT count(*)  FROM [#TableName#]) AS INT)- #Nrows#

Answer 5

I wanted to maintain my table while pulling in one row that gives me the last value in a particular column in the table. I essentially was looking to replace the LAST() function in excel and this worked.

, (Select column_name FROM report WHERE rowid = (select last_insert_rowid() from report))

Answer 6

I think it would be better if you use the method query from SQLiteDatabase class instead of the whole SQL string, which would be:

 Cursor cursor = sqLiteDatabase.query(TABLE, allColluns, null, null, null, null, ID +" DESC", "1");

The last two parameters are ORDER BY and LIMIT.

You can see more at: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/sqlite/SQLiteDatabase.html