Question

Let’s suppose I have a table as such:

ID  |  Date      |  Owner   |  Activity
----------------------------------------
 1  |  1/2/2011  |  Joe     |  Login
 2  |  2/1/2011  |  Mary    |  Logout
 1  |  2/3/2011  |  Bob     |  Process
 3  |  5/6/2010  |  Harry   |  Send
 2  |  8/1/2011  |  Alice   |  Hide

How can I run a query that retrieves all values but for the date field I have the max(date) for that id for EACH entry.

Thus if I were to select * (with other statements I don’t yet know how to run) the output would be:

ID  |  Date      |  Owner   |  Activity
----------------------------------------
 1  |  2/3/2011  |  Joe     |  Login
 2  |  8/1/2011  |  Mary    |  Logout
 1  |  2/3/2011  |  Bob     |  Process
 3  |  5/6/2010  |  Harry   |  Send
 2  |  8/1/2011  |  Alice   |  Hide

Answer 1

An INNER JOIN on a subquery grouping by ID to return the MAX(Date) should do the job:

SELECT 
  t.ID,
  d.maxdate
  t.Owner,
  t.Activity
FROM 
  tbl t INNER JOIN (
   SELECT ID, MAX(Date) AS maxdate FROM tbl GROUP BY ID
  ) d ON t.ID = d.ID