Re: grouping

[Peter Brawley]

 >select column1, column2, max(column3) as maximum
 >from table_name group by column 1;

 >Please tell me if the values from "column2" will contain the values from
 >those records where the column3 has the maximum value.

They will not.

 >please tell me how to do this as fast as possible.

What's fastest depends on your table, indexes &c. Here is one way...

select
  t1.column1,
  (select column2 from table_name t2 where t2.column1=t1.column1) as 
column2,
  max(t1.column3) as maximum
from table_name t1
group by column1;

and here is another, usually faster.

select t1.column1, t1.column2, t1.column3
from table_name t1
left join table_name t2 on t1.column1=t2.column1 and t1.column3<t2.column3
where t2.column1 is null;

PB



Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use:
>
> select column1, column2, max(column3) as maximum from table_name group 
> by column 1;
>
> Please tell me if the values from "column2" will contain the values 
> from those records where the column3 has the maximum value.
> If it doesn't, please tell me how to do this as fast as possible. I 
> know that I could get the maximum values, than make another query and 
> get the values from the lines that have that max value, but I think 
> this will take too much time.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Octavian
>
>


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