Question

I have the following table

ID Name  Progress     Date
------------------------------
1  A1    First Stage  1/1/2013
2  A1    Second Stage 1/2/2013
3  A2    First Stage  1/1/2013
4  A2    Second stage 1/2/2013
5  A3    First Stage  1/2/2013
6  A1    Closed       1/5/2013

I would like to display the stage of each name except the one that is ultimately closed.
For example the output of this should be

ID Name  Progress     Date
------------------------------
3  A2    First Stage  1/1/2013
4  A2    Second stage 1/2/2013
5  A3    First Stage  1/2/2013

Not A1 as A1 is ultimately Closed.

My query display Select * from table where Progress not like 'Closed' obviously displays all the results except that row.

Thanks

Answer 1

Use a subquery to filter all the names that you want to exclude:

select distinct name from table where progress = 'Closed'

Now, use it in your query:

select *
from table
where name not in (select distinct name from table where progress = 'Closed');

Hope this helps you