>Hi all, I need to retrieve the largest value from one of my tables in SS, my code is shown below
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>Select ClaimRef,max(Claim.AdmittedValUSD) as admval from claim
>group by ClaimRef
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>I expected to get 1 record but receive thousands ? any idea why ?
>ClaimRef is unique PK
You get thousands records because ClaimRef is unique.
If you want to get MAX(Claim.AdmittedValUSD) over ALL records you must use:
Select MAX(AdmittedValUSD) as admval
from claim
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