Question

I want to get only distinct rows with their respective AnsId,

like Qid: 01 have last AnsId: 01

I have following data structure,

Qid  Time                  AnsId
01   2011-09-26 12:55:10   01
02   2011-09-26 12:58:32   03
03   2011-09-26 12:59:05   02
01   2011-09-26 01:02:10   01
03   2011-09-26 01:30:10   01
02   2011-09-26 01:59:10   02

I have written following query but it returns all the rows:

SELECT DISTINCT Qid, Time, AnsId
FROM table
ORDER BY Time DESC

Then what is missing part in the select query?

Answer 1

You could use row_number() to find the last answer per Qid:

select  *
from    (
        select  row_number() over (partition by Qid order by Time desc) as rn
        ,       *
        from    YourTable
        ) as SubQueryAlias
where   rn = 1

The subquery is required because SQL Server doesn’t allow row_number directly in a where.