From: | Ugly Hippo <ugly_hippo(at)yahoo(dot)ca> |
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To: | John Taylor <postgres(at)jtresponse(dot)co(dot)uk>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: problem query ... |
Date: | 2002-02-02 08:34:02 |
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--- John Taylor <postgres(at)jtresponse(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I hope someone can help with this query, which is
> causing me great problems.
>
> I have a table:
> create table mytable ( id varchar(10), name
> varchar(10), desc varchar(10), update integer);
>
> I want to return 1 row for each id, that contains
> the maximum update value for that id, and
> the values for name and desc.
I would try (I can't connect to my db at the moment):
select id, max(name), max(desc), max(update)
from mytable
group by id;
HTH,
Troy
ugly_hippo(at)yahoo(dot)ca
>
> I've tried everything I can think of, but no luck
> :-(
> I'm sure there is some simple trick that I'm
> missing.
>
> Can someone please put me out of my misery !
>
> Thanks
> JohnT
>
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