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Select field based on max(other field) ?
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20/04/2005 13:47:58
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
Database:
Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01006645
Message ID:
01006653
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>How can I build a single record parent-child view with all the child values coming from the same record? The child record should supply date, amount and otherfield values, but all of them from the record with max(date). Using max(amount) and max(otherfield) gives values that aren't what I need. For this example, I need 6/1/2004, $90.00, Abacus.
>
>Date        Amount   Otherfield
>01/10/2004  $115.00  Zephyr
>06/01/2004  $90.00   Abacus
>
IF there is only going to be one record for a date and IF there are less than 5 fileds then I would do
select max(dtoc(date))+str(amount)+otherfield
and then parse out the results.

ELSE, i would do
select max(date) into array aControl
select date, amount , otherfield where date == aControl

Yes, this could be done in one select statement but I prefer to split things up like this. IMHO, makes it easier later on when it comes to debugging , commenting and the such.
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