Question

I have a table that holds username, updated date, and status as below:

name | Updated_on | Status

akg     29-NOV-10       Active
akg     13-JAN-12       NonActive
akg     10-MAR-12       Active
ems     23-JUL-12       NonActive
ems     10-SEP-10       Active
tkp     10-SEP-10       NonActive
tkp     13-DEC-10       Active
tkp     02-JUL-12       NonActive
tkp     24-SEP-10       Active
aron    12-JAN-11       NonActive
aron    07-NOV-11       Active
aron    25-JUN-12       NonActive

In this table user status is updated every time we change the status (ie a username can have many entries as shown in the table.

I would like the second last updated record for each user. ie for the above table, the result should be:

name | Updated_on | Status

akg     13-JAN-12       NonActive
ems     10-SEP-10       Active
tkp     13-DEC-10       Active
aron    07-NOV-11       Active

I’m really confused as I want to get the record of each users in this.

Is there any query which can be used for this?

Thank you

Answer 1

You could try that, it’s a bit verbose but it works:

SELECT
  name,
  max(Updated_on) as Updated_on,
  STATUS
FROM userstatus a
  WHERE (name, Updated_on) not in
  (select name, max(Updated_on) FROM userstatus group by name)
group by name, status
HAVING UPDATED_ON =
  (SELECT MAX(UPDATED_ON) FROM userstatus b where a.name = b.name
   and (b.name, b.Updated_on) not in
  (select name, max(Updated_on) FROM userstatus group by name)
  group by name);

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