>>Can anyone tell me if the following can be done in a one line select statement. I cannot seem to get the results I require.
>>
>>I have one table with the following fields: Customer, Date, Price. I am simply trying to get the last price quoted to the customer.
>>
>>CustA, 01/01/01, 100
>>CustA, 01/01/97, 111
>>CustB, 02/02/96, 200
>>CustB, 02/02/02., 222
>>
>>I want my result to be:
>>
>>CustA, 01/01/97, 111
>>CustB, 02/02/96, 200
>>
>>If I use SELECT * FROM myTable ORDER BY Date DESC GROUP BY Customer
>>I get ...
>>CustA, 01/01/01, 100
>>CustB, 02/02/01, 222
>>
>>Again, I am looking for the last price quoted only.
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>-Isaac Roda
>
>Sorry, it's two lines:
>select * from table1 into cursor tmp1 order by customer,date
>select * from tmp1 group by customer

Ed:

If the data field was a Date-Time field, do you think the following would work:

Select Customer, max(Date), Price from Table1

If it is a "plain" date field, does VFP still store the time with it? or does it default those times to 0:00:00?