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Finding Max Salary
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13/04/2007 08:51:26
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP1
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01215436
Message ID:
01215455
Views:
15
>>I have a table with the following fields sif_no, ClassCode, Salary. There are many ClassCodes for a policy. I want to get the ClassCode with the highest salary. See snippet of code below that I use. However, if there is a policy(sif_no) with two class codes with the same salary it will pick up both.
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>>I would like to have only 1 ClassCode returned in the query and it doesn't matter which ClassCode is selected.
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>>***get the max salary and class code
>>Select sif_no, class_code,  salary ;
>>	from tmpmem_class  a ;
>>	WHERE salary = ( Select Max(salary) From tmpmem_class b ;
>>	WHERE a.sif_no = b.sif_no)  ;
>>	INTO Cursor tmpmax
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>>Any suggestions.
>>
>>Gaylen
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>
>***get the max salary and class code
>Select TOP 1 sif_no, class_code,  salary ;
>	from tmpmem_class  a ;
>	WHERE salary = ( Select Max(salary) From tmpmem_class b ;
>	WHERE a.sif_no = b.sif_no)  ;
>        ORDER BY class_code;
>	INTO Cursor tmpmax
>
>
Borislav

Unfortunately that only returns 1 record and not a record for each policy.

Sergey used a different approach in his reply and that seems to work.

Thanks
Gaylen
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