Question

This one should be easy.

I have a Reviews table with records.
The columns are EntityID, UserID, Body, DateModified.
A User can submit multple entries for an Entity.
I want to select all the Reviews that are the most recent entries for a given entity per UserID.

So the table might look like this:

EntityID     UserID     Body     DateModified
1            101        "hey"    8/22/2010 11:36:47 PM
1            101        "dude"   8/11/2010 04:15:43 PM
1            108        "brah"   8/21/2010 11:31:11 PM
1            108        "sup?"   8/14/2010 10:00:00 PM

I’ve got something like this:

 var itemReviews = db.Reviews
                             .Where(x => x.EntityID == EntityID)
                             .OrderByDescending(x => x.DateSubmitted)
                             ;

What do I need to add to get only the records for the most recent EntityID?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In order to get the single most recent review:

var mostRecentReview = db.Reviews
                         .Where(x => x.EntityID == EntityID)
                         .OrderByDescending(x => x.DateSubmitted)
                         .First();

In order to get the most recent review for each user:

var reviews = db.Reviews
                .Where(x => x.EntityID == EntityID)
                .GroupBy(x => x.UserID)
                .Select(gr => new {
                    UserID = gr.Key,
                    MostRecentReview = gr.OrderByDescending(x => x.DateSubmitted)
                                         .First()
                });