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allanurban
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21 Posts

Posted - 2015-03-26 : 08:46:01

I have the following table:

Item Date
A 2015-01-02
A 2015-03-01
A 2015-02-17
B 2015-01-07
B 2015-03-20
C 2015-01-02
C 2015-03-17
C 2015-01-14
C 2015-02-02
D 2015-03-25
E 2015-02-09
E 2015-02-09

Is it possible to get a list with only one of each item and then the latest date possible?

mhorseman
Starting Member

44 Posts

Posted - 2015-03-26 : 09:24:13

Do you mean:

Select item,max(date) from yourtable group by item

?

Mark

allanurban
Starting Member

21 Posts

Posted - 2015-03-26 : 09:26:08

Exactly. That was too easy almost!

Thank you very much!

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