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RE: [OT] SQL question


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  • Subject: RE: [OT] SQL question
  • From: "Dr John Tankard" <john@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 19:26:05 -0000
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> This should do it:
>
> SELECT DISTINCT ON (Parent) Parent,Date,Comment FROM child
> ORDER BY Date DESC
>
> It will basically sort all rows by date then select only the
> first row (i.e. the most recent entry). DESC is to ensure
> that we get the latest date at the top of the resulting table
> since SQL defaults to ASC.
>

I did not know you could do that I thought that distinct worked on all
columns in the result set, I did not know that you could cause it to
look at just one coloum

John





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