>One thing you can do is to create a view of the position table
>
>CREATE VIEW vPosition AS
>SELECT position.possid, MAX(position.posdate) as posdate;
> FROM position;
> GROUP BY position.posid
>
>
>Then your select will be:
>
>select a.Actsid, a.Actssn, a.Actfname, a.Actmname, a.Actlname, p.posname, p.posdate;
> from actives a left outer join vPosition p ON a.ACTSID = p.POSSID;
> where possid = a.actsid ;
> order by actlname
>

The problem with this is that posname is not a field in vPosition, and you can't add it to the first query - it will not select the posname for the right record.