Simple SQL Select with Group and Order By Specific Column

double-subquery

SELECT * FROM 
(
  SELECT * the_table 
  ORDER BY created_at_field DESC
) t
GROUP BY t.id_field


-- On MySQL with InnoDB engine this query was returning the expected result, but i have no idea with another database and engine.
-- Hopefully this trick would work, tell me if it's not. And maybe you can use more complex query as explined on stackoverflow or others.