Summary -

In this topic, we described about the Select Last with detailed example.

SELECT LAST statement used to fetch last value from specified column in existing table. SELECT LAST Statement works only in MS Access database only.

Syntax -

SELECT LAST (Column_name) FROM table_name;
  • column_name - Specifies the name of the column on which LAST clause applied.

Syntax for creating user defined name to the required column – 

SELECT LAST (column_name) AS user_defined_name FROM table_name;
  • user_defined_name- Specifies the name of the output column name in result-set.

Example

Let us consider below table(s) as an example table(s) to frame the SQL query for getting the desired results.

employee_details -

emp_id emp_name designation manager_id date_of_hire salary dept_id
001 Employee1 Director 2019-07-11 45000.00 1000
002 Employee2 Director 2019-07-11 40000.00 2000
003 Employee3 Manager Employee1 2019-07-11 27000.00 1000
004 Employee4 Manager Employee2 2019-10-08 25000.00 2000
005 Employee5 Analyst Employee3 2019-07-11 20000.00 1000
006 Employee6 Analyst Employee3 2019-10-08 18000.00 1000
007 Employee7 Clerk Employee3 2019-07-11 15000.00 1000
008 Employee8 Salesman Employee4 2019-09-09 14000.00 2000
009 Employee9 Salesman Employee4 2019-10-08 13000.00 2000

Scenario – Fetch the last value of the required column from table.

Requirement – Fetch last row value of emp_name column in employee_details table.
The query was as follows – 

SELECT LAST (emp_name) FROM employee_details;

By executing above query, we can get output like as shown in below –

emp_name
Employee9

Scenario – Fetch last value of the required column from table and name the result column with user defined column name.

Requirement – Fetch last row value salary column from employee_details table and name the column as last_salary. The query was as follows – 

SELECT LAST (salary) AS last_salary FROM employee_details;

By executing above query,we can get output like as shown in below -

last_salary
13000.00