>I'm trying to select out from a parent table to a child table. The child can have multiple entries but I want to return the line with the largest value. I've tried a couple of select combinations but I'm not getting the correct result
>
>PARENT
>1 Name1
>2 Name2
>3 Name3
>
>CHILD
>1 12 Code1
>2 19 Code2
>2 16 Code3
>3 10 Code4
>3 13 Code5
>
>I want the result to be
>Name1 Code1
>Name2 Code2
>Name3 Code5
>
>~M
SELECT Parent.Name,;
Child.Code;
FROM Parent;
INNER JOIN (SELECT Child.ParentFld, Child.Code;
FROM Child;
INNER JOIN (SELECT ParentFld, MAX(IdFld) AS IdFld;
FROM Child;
GROUP BY ParentFld) Chld;
ON Child.ParentFld = Chld.ParentFld AND Child.IdFld = Chld.IdFld) Child;
ON Child.ParentFld = Parent.IdFld
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