>>Hi All,
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>>I have two tables which are identical in all respects; number of records, fields per record, and even the value of all fields except for the value of a particular datatime field. The records contain user access info, one record per user, and the datetime field contains the last access datetime.
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>>I need to extract from these two files the latest record only for each user. So either the record from file1 or from file2, whichever has the latest datetime access.
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>>I can obviously code this easily enough but was wondering if there was an easy one-liner SELECT statement or some such?
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>>Thanks,
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>Did you consider a SELECT - SQL with UNION? This one will concatenate two identical structures vertically. I am not sure whether you can do everything with one single step, or perhaps it is easier to do it in two steps.

Thanks Hilmar. I will check it out.