Passing TestStand Variable to Database Options field

I seem to be having an issue with a non-optimized database query possibly because of a TestStand limitation or my limited knowledge of TestStand, probably the latter. What is currently happening is a custom type logs its data through a statement setup in the Database Options. This statement has a primary key reference and grabs that primary key from a recordset returned by this query:
"SELECT id FROM step_result order by date_time desc limit 1".
This query can take around 30 seconds or longer to run which is way too long for a database query returning 1 row.
What I'd like to do is change that query, inside of the Database Options, to utilize a StationGlobals variable which will drastically speed this query up.
I'm doing the same query, with proper WHERE clauses, in another place (as a work-around solution to this same problem, which may be reverted if I fix this problem) and it is laid out as followed:
"SELECT id FROM step_result where uut_result=\""+ StationGlobals.UUT_Result_ID +"\" order by date_time desc limit 1"
I need that query to be run, with that variable, in the database options statement. Is this possible to do in TestStand? The problem I've seen so far is that the "Command Text" entry for the "Get Value from Recordset" doesn't like variables and string concats. Am I missing something obvious?
Thanks in advance for any help.

The way our database is designed, this involves 3 different tables:
step_result - ID Primary kefield
meas_mul_numericlimit - ID primary key, foreign key of step_result ID field
meas_mul_numericlimit_info - Primary and foreign key for step_result ID field
A "parent" row is added into the step_result table, if the step type is of MultipleNumericLimitTest, a row is added into the m_m_n_i to hold graphing information and the actual data is inserted into the m_m_n table.
The MNLT step type uses the query to get the ID of the last entered step_result for the m_m_n_i table to setup the proper relationship. The problem is we need a specific s_r ID for everything to work properly. Obviously the Type definition is a "post processing" method as it can get the current step's ID from the database. The problem is that query isn't optimized and sorting 500k rows is incredibly slow.
The other problem, which I used a workaround on, dealt with a similar yet different situation.
In our Main sequence file, we had a sequence which would establish graphing features for tests whose measurements are spread across different "parents"/steps. We would establish the m_m_n_i information and then associations for a graph_parent field. What I did in that case was, create the association, then using normal SQL steps, gather the ID field and then update the ID for the graph_parent. Since this process was done pre-tests/measurements, I had the luxury to be able to do these steps outside of the database options field. In the other case though, its mid-test and based on measurements so I can't do the same workaround.
One thing I was wondering also is, in the processing of the custom type, is there a way to access the ID of the currently being processed step? If there was a variable for that, then I could just use the expression field.
Does this help/explain this a little better?

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