help on sql query

Suppose you have a table T:

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A      B

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1     '111'

2     '222'

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How do you select A and B of the record with A maximum?

The desirable result therefore is (2, '222')

The two variants I could grow with are:

1) SELECT A, B FROM T ORDER BY A DESC LIMIT 1

2) SELECT A, B FROM T WHERE A IN (SELECT MAX(A) FROM T)

What do yo think of the queries above? And give me the better implementation
if possible.

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