Question

I am trying to list the latest event (only one row output)

Basically the very last date of the event and the very last time of the event.

The below code doesn’t work if it is max(starttime), but it works if it is min(starttime)

However, if I do min(starttime), it’ll tell me the last date of the event but the first event of that last date.

I would like to get the result of the last event time of the last date. (therefore only 1 row output)

Any ideas?

SELECT * from Events
where dateheld in (select max(dateheld) from events)
AND starttime in (select max(starttime) from events)

Answer 1

The issue seems to be the logic as your WHERE statement could be generating two disjoint sets (the max(time) of the table does not share a row with the max(date)). What about something such as the following: (DISTINCT ensures only one record)

SELECT MAX(dateheld) AS 'MaxDate', starttime 
FROM Events
WHERE starttime in 
      (SELECT MAX (starttime) AS temp FROM events)