Max and Group By on datetime column problem

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Max and Group By on datetime column problem

datsun

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April 12, 2016 at 8:28 am

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Hello,
I have a strange issue on querying a table to return Max datetime with a group by clause.
I am getting all dates as max instead of the actual maximum date. The date column has time elements too.
select emailaddress, max(DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,ActivityDate), 0))
from tableA
where emailaddress = 'abctest@test.com'
group by emailaddress, DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,ActivityDate), 0)
The data output comes like this:
I also tried DISTINCT clause with Select, but still not working.
Thank you,
Bij

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Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 23010 More actions · Answer 1

datsun (4/12/2016)
Hello,
I have a strange issue on querying a table to return Max datetime with a group by clause.
I am getting all dates as max instead of the actual maximum date. The date column has time elements too.
select emailaddress, max(DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,ActivityDate), 0))
from tableA
where emailaddress = 'abctest@test.com'
group by emailaddress, DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,ActivityDate), 0)
The data output comes like this:
abctest@test.com, 2014-02-18 00:00:00.000
abctest@test.com, 2014-08-14 00:00:00.000
abctest@test.com, 2012-11-28 00:00:00.000
abctest@test.com, 2013-09-24 00:00:00.000
abctest@test.com, 2014-09-01 00:00:00.000
I also tried DISTINCT clause with Select, but still not working.
Thank you,
Bij

Try taking the DATEADD calculation off the GROUP BY. Your query is grouping by that as well as the emailaddress.

CREATE TABLE ##myTable (emailaddress VARCHAR(20), activitydate datetime)

INSERT INTO ##myTable (emailaddress, activitydate) VALUES ('abctest@test.com','2014-02-18 00:00:00.000')

INSERT INTO ##myTable (emailaddress, activitydate) VALUES ('abctest@test.com','2014-08-14 00:00:00.000')

INSERT INTO ##myTable (emailaddress, activitydate) VALUES ('abctest@test.com','2012-11-28 00:00:00.000')

INSERT INTO ##myTable (emailaddress, activitydate) VALUES ('abctest@test.com','2013-09-24 00:00:00.000')

INSERT INTO ##myTable (emailaddress, activitydate) VALUES ('abctest@test.com','2014-09-01 00:00:00.000');

SELECT

emailaddress

,MAX(DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,ActivityDate), 0))

FROM

##myTable

GROUP BY

emailaddress

DROP TABLE

##myTable

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datsun SSCrazy Points: 2397 More actions · Answer 2

BWFC,

yes that works. silly me forgot about the date column in group by clause. I had it as a column in the select clause initially, hence it stayed with the group by clause too.

many thanks,

Bij