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Asked: 2026-06-07T05:34:36+00:00

I have a table in SQL Server 2012 that contains patch notes for different

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I have a table in SQL Server 2012 that contains patch notes for different versions of my software. The table looks like this:

VersionID int PrimaryKey Identity
Major tinyint
Minor tinyint
Revision tinyint
Patchnotes nvarchar(MAX)

I need to retrieve the row with the most recent version based on Major, Minor and Revision. For example, version 1.1.4 comes after version 1.1.3 but before version 1.2.1.

Would anyone have any ideas on how to write a query in TSQL to do this? If you could maybe push me in the right direction without completing the entire query, I’d be appreciative. Trying to learn and all that!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would order by your three fields descending and then take one record:

    SELECT TOP 1 VersionID, Major, Minor, Revision, Patchnotes
FROM VERSIONS
ORDER BY Major DESC, Minor  DESC, Revision  DESC

    Multiple sort columns can be specified. The sequence of the sort columns in the ORDER BY clause defines the organization of the sorted result set. The result set is sorted by the first column and then that ordered list is sorted by the second column, and so on.

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