Question

I am trying to select two columns into a table (ID and state). The table should show the state with the maximum value for each ID. I’ve tried a few other examples but nothing seems to work.

Original data structure:

ID  state    value (FLOAT)
1   TX   921,294,481 
1   SC   21,417,296 
1   FL   1,378,132,290 
1   AL   132,556,895 
1   NC   288,176 
1   GA   1,270,986,631 
2   FL   551,374,452 
2   LA   236,645,530 
2   MS   2,524,536,050 
2   AL   4,128,682,333 
2   FL   1,503,991,028

The resulting data structure should therefore look like this:

ID  STATE (Max Value)
1   FL
2   AL

Florida and Alabama having the largest values in their ID groups.

Any help would be greatly appreciated on this. I did find a SO answer here already, but could not make the answers work for me.

Answer 1

For SQL Server (and other products with windowed functions):

SELECT *
FROM
(
   SELECT
     *,
     ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ID ORDER BY value desc) as rn
   FROM
     UnnamedTable
) t
WHERE
   t.rn = 1