Re: Simple Query HELP!!!

On 22 Sep 2001 19:18:10 -0700, bulk(at)colonnello(dot)org (Paolo Colonnello)
wrote:

>Hello, I have the following, A table call People with 3 fields AGE
>(Int) NAME (Txt) COMPANY (TxT) and I want to create a query than get
>me a list with the seniors per company, for example :
>
>table PEOPLE
>
>NAME AGE COMPANY
>Bob 33 Acme
>Jane 30 Acme
>Bill 20 Acme
>Jose 56 ATech
>Siu 40 ATech
>Paolo 28 IBM
>Maria 38 IBM
>
>I need a query than will return a list with the seniors per company
>like
>
>Bob
>Jose
>Maria
>
>Is there a way to do this with one query?
>
Do you care about ties? What if Ingrid, 38 yrs old, worked at IBM?
Would you want to show both Ingrid and Maria? If so, this will work:

Select Name From People t1 Inner Join
(Select Company, Max(Age) As Oldest FROM People
Group By Company) t2
ON t1.Company = t2.Company AND t1.Age = t2.Oldest

HTH,
Bob Barrows
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