Specify sorting order for a GROUP BY query to retrieve oldest or newest record for each group?

You can't "get the most recent record" using GROUP BY. GROUP BY aggregates many records together so what you end up seeing/extracting are not the actual records from the table but "virtual" records constructed from one or more table records.

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