How can I SELECT rows with MAX(Column value), PARTITION by another column in MYSQL?

I have a table of player performance:

CREATE TABLE TopTen (
  id INT UNSIGNED PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
  home INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
  `datetime`DATETIME NOT NULL,
  player VARCHAR(6) NOT NULL,
  resource INT NOT NULL
);

What query will return the rows for each distinct home holding its maximum value of datetime? In other words, how can I filter by the maximum datetime (grouped by home) and still include other non-grouped, non-aggregate columns (such as player) in the result?

For this sample data:

INSERT INTO TopTen
  (id, home, `datetime`, player, resource)
VALUES
  (1, 10, '04/03/2009', 'john', 399),
  (2, 11, '04/03/2009', 'juliet', 244),
  (5, 12, '04/03/2009', 'borat', 555),
  (3, 10, '03/03/2009', 'john', 300),
  (4, 11, '03/03/2009', 'juliet', 200),
  (6, 12, '03/03/2009', 'borat', 500),
  (7, 13, '24/12/2008', 'borat', 600),
  (8, 13, '01/01/2009', 'borat', 700)
;

the result should be:

id	home	datetime	player	resource
1	10	04/03/2009	john	399
2	11	04/03/2009	juliet	244
5	12	04/03/2009	borat	555
8	13	01/01/2009	borat	700

I tried a subquery getting the maximum datetime for each home:

-- 1 ..by the MySQL manual: 

SELECT DISTINCT
  home,
  id,
  datetime AS dt,
  player,
  resource
FROM TopTen t1
WHERE `datetime` = (SELECT
  MAX(t2.datetime)
FROM TopTen t2
GROUP BY home)
GROUP BY `datetime`
ORDER BY `datetime` DESC

The result-set has 130 rows although database holds 187, indicating the result includes some duplicates of home.

Then I tried joining to a subquery that gets the maximum datetime for each row id:

-- 2 ..join

SELECT
  s1.id,
  s1.home,
  s1.datetime,
  s1.player,
  s1.resource
FROM TopTen s1
JOIN (SELECT
  id,
  MAX(`datetime`) AS dt
FROM TopTen
GROUP BY id) AS s2
  ON s1.id = s2.id
ORDER BY `datetime`

Nope. Gives all the records.

I tried various exotic queries, each with various results, but nothing that got me any closer to solving this problem.

Answer

You are so close! All you need to do is select BOTH the home and its max date time, then join back to the topten table on BOTH fields:

SELECT tt.*
FROM topten tt
INNER JOIN
    (SELECT home, MAX(datetime) AS MaxDateTime
    FROM topten
    GROUP BY home) groupedtt 
ON tt.home = groupedtt.home 
AND tt.datetime = groupedtt.MaxDateTime

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