>At the risk of looking foolish again.............
>
>Your result works because qty is unique. Give the different names the same MAX(qty) and you'll wind up with extra rows. I believe you need
>

>select table1.*; && or table1.id, table1.names, etc.
> from table1;
>   join (select id, max(qty) as qty from table1 group by id) table2 on table1.id = table2.id AND table1.qty = table2.qty
>

thanks for confirming, I mentioned the same caveat earlier in this thread