Question

If I have the following table:

CREATE TABLE #temp (
    id int,
    num int,
    question varchar(50),
    qversion int );

INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(1, 1, 'Question 1 v1', 1);
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(2, 1, 'Question 1 v2', 2);
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(3, 2, 'Question 2 v1', 1);
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(4, 2, 'Question 2 v2', 2);
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(5, 2, 'Question 2 v3', 3);
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(6, 3, 'Question 3 v1', 1);

SELECT *
FROM #temp;

DROP TABLE #temp;

And I would like to get a table to display the three questions in their lastest version? This is in SQL Server 2005

Answer 1

CREATE TABLE #temp (
    id int,
    num int,
    question varchar(50),
    qversion int );

INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(1, 1, 'Question 1 v1', 1);
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(2, 1, 'Question 1 v2', 2);
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(3, 2, 'Question 2 v1', 1);
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(4, 2, 'Question 2 v2', 2);
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(5, 2, 'Question 2 v3', 3);
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(6, 3, 'Question 3 v1', 1);

WITH latest AS (
   SELECT num, MAX(qversion) AS qversion
   FROM #temp
   GROUP BY num
)
SELECT #temp.*
FROM #temp
INNER JOIN latest
    ON latest.num = #temp.num
    AND latest.qversion = #temp.qversion;

DROP TABLE #temp;