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I get this result with the query:
SELECT DISTINCT ljm.journelname,ljm. subscription_id,
ljm.frequency,ljm.publisher, ljm.price, ljd.receipt_date
FROM lib_journals_master ljm,
lib_subscriptionhistory
lsh,lib_journal_details ljd
WHERE ljd.journal_id=ljm.id
ORDER BY ljm.publisher
What I need is the latest date in each journal?
I tried this query:
SELECT DISTINCT ljm.journelname, ljm.subscription_id,
ljm.frequency, ljm.publisher, ljm.price,ljd.receipt_date
FROM lib_journals_master ljm,
lib_subscriptionhistory lsh,
lib_journal_details ljd
WHERE ljd.journal_id=ljm.id
AND ljd.receipt_date = (
SELECT max(ljd.receipt_date)
from lib_journal_details ljd)
But it gives me the maximum from the entire column. My needed result will have two dates (maximum of each magazine), but this query gives me only one?
You should use Group By if you need the Max from date.
Should look something like this:
SELECT
ljm.journelname
, ljm.subscription_id
, ljm.frequency
, ljm.publisher
, ljm.price
, **MAX(ljd.receipt_date)**
FROM
lib_journals_master ljm
, lib_subscriptionhistory lsh
, lib_journal_details ljd
WHERE
ljd.journal_id=ljm.id
GROUP BY
ljm.journelname
, ljm.subscription_id
, ljm.frequency
, ljm.publisher
, ljm.price
You could change the WHERE statement to look up the last date for each journal:
AND ljd.receipt_date = (
SELECT max(subljd.receipt_date)
from lib_journal_details subljd
where subljd.journelname = ljd.journelname)
Make sure to give the table in the subquery a different alias from the table in the main query.
Something like this should work for you.
SELECT ljm.journelname
, ljm.subscription_id
, ljm.frequency
, ljm.publisher
, ljm.price
,md.max_receipt_date
FROM lib_journals_master ljm
, ( SELECT journal_id
, max(receipt_date) as max_receipt_date
FROM lib_journal_details
GROUP BY journal_id) md
WHERE ljm.id = md.journal_id
/
Note that I have removed the tables from the FROM clause which don't contribute anything to the query. You may need to replace them if yopu simplified your scenario for our benefit.
Separate this into two queries one will get journal name and latest date
declare table @table (journalName as varchar,saleDate as datetime)
insert into @table
select journalName,max(saleDate) from JournalTable group by journalName
select all fields you need from your table and join @table with them. join on journalName.
Sounds like top of group. You can use a CTE in SQL Server:
;WITH journeldata AS
(
SELECT
ljm.journelname
,ljm.subscription_id
,ljm.frequency
,ljm.publisher
,ljm.price
,ljd.receipt_date
,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY ljm.journelname ORDER BY ljd.receipt_date DESC) AS RowNumber
FROM
lib_journals_master ljm
,lib_subscriptionhistory lsh
,lib_journal_details ljd
WHERE
ljd.journal_id=ljm.id
AND ljm.subscription_id = ljm.subscription_id
)
SELECT
journelname
,subscription_id
,frequency
,publisher
,price
,receipt_date
FROM journeldata
WHERE RowNumber = 1