Question

Please excuse my lack of knowledge on this issue as this question as it’s pretty basic, but I have a nullable [DateTime] column and I’d like to use a LINQ query to select records for each user with the maximum “Timestamp” found via a join.

Here’s my query at the moment.

return (from t1 in db.BU
                from t2 in db.UserNames
                 .Where(t => (t.User_Username == t1.Username))
                from t3 in db.Logins
                .Where(t => (t.username == t1.Username))
                where myBusinessUnits.Contains(t1.BusinessUnit_ID)
                orderby (t2.Name) descending
                select new GlobalMyTeamDetailModel
                {
                     LastLogin = t3.timestamp,
                     Name = t2.Name

                });

If anybody could help me, I’d appreciate it.

It’s the maximum value of the “Login” table I’m trying to get for each user.

EDIT: Another attempt which didn’t give the desired result:

        var result =
           (from t1 in db.LoginHistories
            where t1.username == user

            from t2 in db.UserNames
                .Where(t => (t.User_Username == t1.username))

            from t3 in db.UserBusinessUnits
                .Where(t => (t.Username == t1.username))

            where myBusinessUnits.Contains(t3.BusinessUnit_ID)

            group t1 by new { t1.username } into g
            let MaxDate = g.Max(uh => uh.timestamp)

            select new GlobalMyTeamDetailModel
                {
                    LastLogin = MaxDate,
                    Name = g.Key.username
                });

Answer 1

if you always have at least a joining row, sort t3 by timestamp and fetch the first one (should be the greatest value).

return (from t1 in db.BU
            from t2 in db.UserNames
             .Where(t => (t.User_Username == t1.Username))
            from t3 in db.Logins
            .Where(t => (t.username == t1.Username))
            .OrderBy(u => u.timestamp).First()           // <--------- add this
            where myBusinessUnits.Contains(t1.BusinessUnit_ID)
            orderby (t2.Name) descending
            select new GlobalMyTeamDetailModel
            {
                 LastLogin = t3.timestamp,
                 Name = t2.Name

            });