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Key is to sort in descending order.<br />
Then use Top 1 to get the first record.<br />
So effectively, you are getting the last record.<br />
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hongjun
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Key is to sort in descending order.
Then use Top 1 to get the first record.
So effectively, you are getting the last record.

hongjun

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I have an SQL database with thousands of records in it. The &quot;formnumber&quot; field is set as the key. I am writing a VB.NET application and one of the fields will require me to pull the last record in the database. I don't want to read in all the records and then sort them. Is there a way to sort the data and then read in the last record?
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I have an SQL database with thousands of records in it. The "formnumber" field is set as the key. I am writing a VB.NET application and one of the fields will require me to pull the last record in the database. I don't want to read in all the records and then sort them. Is there a way to sort the data and then read in the last record?

Retrieve last record

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