Question

I have two tables (MS Access)

tblInput

Event, UserID, Score
EventA, 1, 50
EventA, 2, 55
EventB, 1, 45
EventB, 2, 33

tblUser

ID, Name
1     , John
2     , Alex

I need to show the winning score of each event, the event, and the name of the person. Output for this example should be

Event, Name, Score
EventA, Alex, 55
EventB, John, 45

I have tried this to get the event and top score:

SELECT Max(Score), Event FROM tblInput GROUP BY Event;

However, if I try to select the ID (Which I’m just using in the place of name, can change back to name when I join tables), I am forced to make it an aggregate function which I don’t want to, or Place it in the Group by statement, which I get something like

SELECT Max(Score) AS Score, Event, ID FROM tblInput GROUP BY Event, ID;

Score, Event,  ID
165 EventA  2
173 EventA  9
170 EventA  32
211 EventB  10
224 EventB  14
256 EventC  16
188 EventC  17

Any help is appreciated, sorry for poor formatting.

Answer 1

Create one query like this:

SELECT 
 Max(Score) as topscore, 
 ChildEvent 
FROM 
 T_Participation 
GROUP BY ChildEvent

Then a second one built with the first query and your input table joined on both the event and score:

select
 childEvent,
 topscore,
 StudentID
from
 query1 q inner join
 t_participation p on
 q.childevent = p.childevent and
 q.topscore = p.score

what if you have more than one user with the top score?
Like for event A, user 3 has a score of 55?