Max Date Query

SELECT     PART_ID, MAX(TRANSACTION_DATE) AS LAST_TRANS_DATE
FROM         dbo.INVENTORY_TRANS
WHERE (NOT (PART_ID IS NULL))
GROUP BY PART_ID

This will give you the entire record for the max item per part_id.

select t.* from dbo.inventory_trans t
join (select part_id, max_transaction_date=max(transaction_date) from dbo.inventory_items group by part_id) tm
on t.part_id = tm.part_id
and t.transaction_Date = tm.transaction_date

you mean:

SELECT t.PART_ID, t.TRANSACTION_DATE , t.CLASS 
  FROM dbo.INVENTORY_TRANS t
  WHERE t.PART_ID IS NOT NULL
    AND t.TRANSACTION_DATE = ( SELECT MAX(i.TRANSACTION_DATE) FROM dbo.INVENTORY_TRANS i WHERE i.PART_ID = t.PART_ID ) 
 ORDER BY PART_ID

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Actually... this one will... forgot to change tm.transaction_Date to tm.max_transaction_Date

select t.* from dbo.inventory_trans t
join (select part_id, max_transaction_date=max(transaction_date) from dbo.inventory_items group by part_id) tm
on t.part_id = tm.part_id
and t.transaction_Date = tm.max_transaction_date

BrandonGalderisi,

Thank you, that will work.  However, I need to only include records from t.inventory_trans where the CLASS='I' or CLASS='R'.  This needs to be the max date of that query, only one record should be returned.

Thanks,
Steve

Here you go.  I think I mistyped inventory_items on the derived table too so I fixed it here.

select t.* from dbo.inventory_trans t
join
(select part_id, max_transaction_date=max(transaction_date)
from dbo. inventory_trans
where class in ('I','R')
  group by part_id) tm

on t.part_id = tm.part_id
and t.transaction_Date = tm.max_transaction_date

BrandonGalderisi:

Excellent, one more thing...

Since my application stores only the date in a date/time field all dates are as of 12:00:00 AM, so I am getting duplicates.  Anyway to only get one?

Thanks,
Steve

What is your primary key in the inventory trans table.  I can change it to only return one inventory_trans, but you need to say what one you want to return if there are multiple transactions for a particular day.  So if there are 5 transactions for a day, what of those 5 do you want?  The first inserted (do you have an identity), the last inserted, any one?

BrandonGalderisi:

The Primary Key is "transaction_id".  I don't care which one get's returned for a particular day, I am just looking to see when the last transaction happend for each part_id of the class "i or r" types.

Try this:

select t.* from dbo.inventory_trans t
join
(select part_id, transaction_date, transaction_id, row_number() over (partition by part_id order by transaction_date desc, transaction_id desc) rn
from dbo. inventory_trans
where class in ('I','R')
  group by part_id) tm

on t.transaction_id = tm.transaction_id
and tm.rn=1

Thank you so much, working great!