>I have a patient referrals table which identifies patients by field MNO and has a referral date field REFDATE. The table contains multiple records for each patient for each time the patient is referred:
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>MNO REFDATE
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>100 98.01.01
>100 98.03.02
>100 98.02.05
>101 98.01.05 (different patient)
>100 98.07.02
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>Records are NOT necessarily added to the table in date order, but the table is indexed on REFDATE and related to the main patient table by MNO.
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>Problem: I need a SELECT statement which will retrieve each MNO record and its latest REFDATE, i.e. in the example above it would be
>record 5. This statement is to list one record only per patient with the latest REFDATE only.
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>Any ideas please?

Bob, try
SELECT DISTINCT mno, refdate from mytable ORDER by refdate DESCENDING INTO CURSOR tmp

Nick