>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
Just to add to Bill and Boris :
Bill's solution works well but you can also
SELECT claimRef, AdmittedValUSD from claim where AdmittedvalUSD = (Select max(claim.admittedValUSD) from claim)
For your example Bill's SELECT Top 1 is probably best, but this construction may come in handy some day for something mroe complicated.
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