Need to select rows with the latest date only
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In the attached image, i need to change the query to return only the rows with latest RecruitmentDate (highlighted in green)
What would such query be?thank you.
Likes to play Chess
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Simple:
WITH BaseData as (
SELECT
AgentID
, WC
, RecruitmentDate
, [Agent preferred gender]
, [Agent Gender at Birth]
, [rn] = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY [AgentID] ORDER BY [RecruimentDate] DESC)
FROM
[MWDatesPR]
)
ELECT
AgentID
, WC
, RecruitmentDate
, [Agent preferred gender]
, [Agent Gender at Birth]
FROM
BaseData
WHERE
[rn] = 1; -
For others, here is that image again:
Select from a CTE which contains ROW_NUMBER(), partitioned by AgentId and ordered by RecruitmentDate Desc, where ROW_NUMBER() = 1.
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- Lynn Pettis - Thursday, October 11, 2018 11:31 AM
Grrr!
If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.
- Phil Parkin - Thursday, October 11, 2018 11:32 AM
Hey, after the troll I needed to post something usable. 😀
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Sorry, I did not complete my question.
The only way I know is this:select * from MWDatesPR M1
where AgentID = '303844611' and RecruitmentDate= (select Max(RecruitmentDate) from MWDatesPR M2 where M1.agentID = m2.agentID)My question:
On huge data-sets against 500 million and more rows tables,
what would be a more efficient performance wise way to write this query?Thank you.
Likes to play Chess
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Thank you.
I think the above CTE is my answer.Likes to play Chess
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So what all have you tried? Do you have the actually execution plans of the various options? What indexing exists on these large tables?
- VoldemarG - Thursday, October 11, 2018 11:34 AM
If you have more than about 5 rows per AgentId then this method will be the fastest providing you have the following index:
CREATE INDEX IX_MWDatesPR_1 ON MWDatesPR (AgentId, RecruitmentDate);WITH CTE AS
(
SELECT DISTINCT AgentID
FROM MWDatesPR
)
SELECT m.*
FROM CTE
CROSS APPLY(SELECT TOP(1) *
FROM MWDatesPR m
WHERE m.AgentId = CTE.AgentId
ORDER BY m.RecruitmentDate DESC) AS m
This will get the most recent row for all AgentId's
If you are only interested in AgentId = '303844611'. Then you just need the following query:SELECT TOP(1) * FROM MWDatesPR WHERE AgentId = '303844611' ORDER BY RecruitmentDate DESC - Jonathan AC Roberts - Thursday, October 11, 2018 3:26 PM
If you have a table where the number of distinct values out number those that have duplicates, then take a look at Paul White's super-quick rCTE-based DISTINCT equivalent
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