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 Posted - 2002-08-27 : 11:10:09
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| Roy writes "I have a table that contains a truck number, source location, destination location, dateout and trip duration. I need to determine the last trip made by each truck before a certain date. I only want 1 record returned for each truck. I have been able to achieve this using temp tables but it's seem messy and slow. There must be a better way." |
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Posted - 2002-08-27 : 11:27:06
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| select *from tblwhere dateout = (select max(dateout) from tbl t2 where tbl.truckid = t2.truckid where dateout < @date)==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.DTS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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Selecting a record from each group