Howdy, Raju
Do you want somethin like this? Not sure if I fully understood your
requests...
SELECT "Key",MAX(Date)
FROM t_yourTable
WHERE Value LIKE 'foo'
GROUP BY Key ;
Best,
Oliveiros
----- Original Message -----
From: "Raj Mathur" <raju@linux-delhi.org>
To: <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 7:55 PM
Subject: [SQL] For each key, find row with highest value of other field
>I have some data of the form:
>
> Key | Date | Value
> A | 2008-05-01 | foo *
> A | 2008-04-01 | bar
> A | 2008-03-01 | foo *
> B | 2008-03-04 | baz
> B | 2008-02-04 | bar
> C | 2008-06-03 | foo *
> C | 2008-04-04 | baz
> C | 2008-03-04 | bar
>
> Is there any way to select only the rows marked with a (*) out of these
> without doing a join? I.e. I wish to find the row with the highest
> Date for each Key and use the Value from that.
>
> Regards,
>
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