Question

 SELECT [Id]
  ,[Date]
  ,[Condition]
         FROM [CRESULTS]
 where condition = 'abc'

I need to find the maxvalue of hour13 and the corresponding date, so far the query i wrote works, But any other alterative ideas?

  SELECT top 1 max(abs([Hour13])) as hour13,date
  FROM CRESULTS where condition ='a' and Date between '2011-05-16' and '2011-07-10'
    group date
   order by hour13 desc

Answer 1

You don’t need MAX here.

SELECT  TOP 1
        ABS(hour13) AS abs_hour13,
        datefield
FROM    cresults
WHERE   condition = 'a'
        AND datefield BETWEEN '2011-05-16' AND '2011-07-10'
ORDER BY
        abs_hour13 DESC