MySQL - GROUP BY with ORDER DESC not working

Question

Hi I am having a problem with following query.

SELECT id, user_id, cloth_id FROM `items` GROUP BY user_id ORDER BY id desc LIMIT 3 

I want the

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT i.id, i.user_id, i.cloth_id FROM
(
    SELECT max(id) as id, user_id FROM `items` GROUP BY user_id
) temp
LEFT JOIN `items` i on i.user_id = temp.user_id AND i.id = temp.id

in temp you get each user with the latest id.
in i you get the cloth_id for that combination