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Filter by highest value

I'm trying to find the last ship date for each customer in our database. Each customer has multiple orders in the orders table and I just need to see the last order that each customer made. Here is an example:

Imagine that I have a table like this.
CustNum              ShipDate
123             08-01-2011
456             08-01-2011
789             08-03-2011
123             08-04-2011
123             08-12-2011
789             08-09-2011

I want my query results to look like this
CustNum ShipDate
123             08-12-2011
456             08-01-2011
789             08-09-2011

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David11011

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Thats putting me down the right path. The only problem I'm having now is that there are more columns in the table than I posted. When I try and do a group by it says that the other columns are not contained in the aggregate function or the group by clause. Here is a list of the columns that I need to see from the table.

CUSTNO
DAYPHONE
COMPANYNAME
STATE
CUSTOMERTYPE
STATUS
FNAME
LNAME
FAXPHONE
SHIPDATE

The problem I'm having with the group by clause is that it will return a new row if there is different data in any of the columns.

I want to group by CUSTNO and not include the other columns in the group by clause so that rows will be dropped regardless of whether or not the other columns are unique.

I was having a hard aticulating my point. I hope that I wasn't too confusing

almander

Something like this should work.

Select CustNum,
(SELECT Max(SUB_TAB.ShipDate) FROM YourTable SUB_TAB WHERE SUB_TAB.CUSTOMERID = YourTable.CUSTOMERID) LAST_SHIP_DATE,
ShipDate ,
*
From YourTable

wdosanjos

Got it. Please try the following:

Select CUSTNO, DAYPHONE, COMPANYNAME, STATE, CUSTOMERTYPE, STATUS, FNAME, LNAME, FAXPHONE, SHIPDATE
  From YourTable c
       Inner Join (Select CUSTNO, Max(SHIPDATE) SHIPDATE From YourTable Group By CUSTNO) sdt
             On sdt.CUSTNO = c.CUSTNO and sdt.SHIPDATE = c.SHIPDATE

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almander

Select CustNum,
(SELECT Max(SUB_TAB.ShipDate) FROM YourTable SUB_TAB WHERE SUB_TAB.CustNum = YourTable.CustNum) LAST_SHIP_DATE,
ShipDate ,
*
From YourTable

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Thanks for all your help guys.

I realized that the customer information is consistent throughout the table so I could add all the columns in to the group by clause. Here is the query that I came up with.

select	CUSTOMERS.CUSTNO as 'CustomerNo' ,
		CUSTOMERPHONE.DAYPHONE as 'Phone', 
		CUSTOMERS.NAMEX as 'Company', 
		CUSTOMERS.[STATE] as 'ST', 
		CUSTOMERS.CUSTTYPE as 'CT', 
		CUSTOMERS.CUSTSTATUS as 'CS', 
		CUSTOMERS.FNAME as 'First Name', 
		CUSTOMERS.LNAME as 'Last Name', 
		CUSTOMERPHONE.FAXPHONE as 'Fax',
		max(macsaleUnion.SHIPDATE) as 'Last Ship Date'
from ORDERHEADER
				inner join macsaleUnion on macsaleUnion.ORDERNO = substring(ORDERHEADER.FULLORDERNO, 0, 9) 
				inner join CUSTOMERS on ORDERHEADER.CUSTEDP = CUSTOMERS.CUSTEDP 
				full outer join CUSTOMERPHONE on ORDERHEADER.CUSTEDP = CUSTOMERPHONE.CUSTEDP
				full outer join ITEMMAST on ITEMMAST.EDPNO = macsaleUnion.edpNos
where	(ITEMMAST.ITEMNO like @itemNo + '%') 
		and (FAXPHONE <> '') 
		and (FAXPHONE <> '0')
		and (FAXPHONE <> '1')
		and (ISNUMERIC(FAXPHONE) = 1)
		and (LEN(FAXPHONE) <= 10)
		and (CUSTTYPE = 'TK' or CUSTTYPE = 'CT' or CUSTTYPE = 'PC' or CUSTTYPE = 'CO')
		and (CUSTSTATUS = 'CC' or CUSTSTATUS = 'CA' or CUSTSTATUS = 'CB' or CUSTSTATUS = 'CV' or CUSTSTATUS = 'e%' or CUSTSTATUS = 'r%')
		and ((cast(ORDERHEADER.ENTRYDATE as date) >= @startDate and cast(ORDERHEADER.ENTRYDATE as date) <= @endDate) or (cast(macsaleUnion.SHIPDATE as date) >= @startDate and cast(macsaleUnion.SHIPDATE as date) < @endDate))
group by CUSTOMERS.CUSTNO, CUSTOMERPHONE.DAYPHONE, CUSTOMERS.NAMEX, CUSTOMERS.[STATE], CUSTOMERS.CUSTTYPE, CUSTOMERS.CUSTSTATUS,CUSTOMERS.FNAME,  CUSTOMERS.LNAME, CUSTOMERPHONE.FAXPHONE

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