max function and where clause

• grasshopper26

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  April 12, 2013 at 7:35 am

  #273333

  Hi,

  I went to retrive the the maximum of one cloumn in the table meet some where criteria. I tried the folowing SQL

  Select Name, Max(version) from table1 where name="Asdf";

  I am unable to get the required result set which I need from above query.

  Can you please tell me what is wrong with the query?

  Thank you!

• Lynn Pettis

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  April 12, 2013 at 7:47 am

  #1605964

  grasshopper26 (4/12/2013)

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  Hi,

  I went to retrive the the maximum of one cloumn in the table meet some where criteria. I tried the folowing SQL

  Select Name, Max(version) from table1 where name="Asdf";

  I am unable to get the required result set which I need from above query.

  Can you please tell me what is wrong with the query?

  Thank you!

  Select Name, Max(version) from table1 where name="Asdf" group by Name;

• ChrisM@Work

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  April 12, 2013 at 7:49 am

  #1605967

  Either of these:

  SELECT Name, MAX(version) OVER(PARTITION BY Name)

  FROM table1

  WHERE name = 'Asdf';

  SELECT Name, MAX(version)

  FROM table1

  WHERE name = 'Asdf'

  GROUP BY Name;

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