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V6s5 - SQL for Parent and only the Latest Child rec
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29/03/2004 10:53:39
Cetin Basoz
Engineerica Inc.
Izmir, Turkey
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00888750
Message ID:
00890434
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30
>Hi Cetin
>
>>In pseudocode it's like :
>>
>>Select distinct values
>>while selecting
>>select the record with the latest date and populate related fields from that record
>>
>>>> WHERE sNonCummu.dDueDt =
>>>> (SELECT MAX(sNC.dDueDt)
>>>> FROM sNonCummu sNC where sNonCummu.iPID = sNC.iPID )
>>
>>Tells to find latest date for 'current of' iPID.
>>= works as subquery returns a single value.
>
>Yes, but I wanted one latest for every parent, thus so. W/o group by it doesn't work it returns only one child which is the latest of the whole lot of children.

And it's one latest per parent. If not working that way then your backend has a problem with ANSI-SQL 92.
In SQL try aliasing the first sNonCummu with something else like sNC1.
Anyway if you have a working one :)
Cetin
Çetin Basöz

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