Or maybe if date_time is of type timestamp:
select date( select date_time from log order by date_time desc limit 1);
JLL
Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
> On Tue, 7 May 2002, Randall Perry wrote:
>
> > With the following:
> >
> > select max(date) from log order by date_time desc limit 12;
> >
> > The limit clause has no effect on the results; it'll get the latest date
> > from the entire record set rather than from the last 12 records.
>
> Maybe something like:
> select max(date) from (select date from log order by date_time desc limit
> 12) c;
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