I am trying to make your suggestion to work. Is there missing INTO ORDERTABLE in the Select which is within the parantheses? Because you have two names YOURTABLE and ORDERTABLE.
Thank you.
>No gurantee but this should give you some ideas:
>
>select KEYFIELD, CUST_ID as CUSTOMER, ORD_DATE, ORD_TIME ;
>from ORDERTABLE ;
>where KEYFIELD in ;
>(select top 1 KEYFIELD from YOURTABLE
>where CUST_ID == CUSTOMER
>order by ORD_DATE, ORD_TIME descending)
>order by CUSTOMER
>
>HTH
>
>Peter
>
>
>>I need help in selecting records from the following table (simplified):
>>
>>CUST_ID
>>ORD_DATE
>>ORD_TIME
>>
>>For a given date (ORD_DATE), I need to select one order record per customer (CUST_ID) based on the time of order (ORD_TIME). For example, the Order Time should be the latest of the day.
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