Query top 1 of a set of records

  • I have what should be simple, but maybe someone can take me in the right direction.

    Here is the problem:

    One table: BaseOutlet

    Has four columns that make up the Primary Key:

    BaseId int,

    OUTLID int,

    MKTID int,

    RACID bit

    The application has the "BaseId", but the data is sending duplicates in a way. The "RACID" can be "0" or "1" and nothing else. There can be two records possible that end up like this:

    BaseId = 1

    OUTLID = 2

    MKTID = 1

    RACID = 1

    And another record with:

    BaseId = 1

    OUTLID = 2

    MKTID = 1

    RACID = 0 <-- only difference

    In this query I want to exclude the 0 record if a 1 is present, but if no 1 is present then send back the 0.

    There is a lot of records so I wanted to see if this could be done in a query and not a loop/cursor.

    Maybe I need some sleep, but I thought this would be simple.

    :w00t:

    script to help in testing:

    CREATE TABLE BaseOutlet (

    CaseId int,

    OUTL_ID int,

    MKT_ID int,

    TAC_ID bit)

    INSERT INTO BaseOutlet

    VALUES (1,2,1,0)

    INSERT INTO BaseOutlet

    VALUES (1,2,1,1)

    --I don't want both the records above to show up in the query

    INSERT INTO BaseOutlet

    VALUES (3,4,1,0)

    INSERT INTO BaseOutlet

    VALUES (5,6,1,1)

    --the above two can show up

  • select A.*

    from BaseOutlet A

    join (select CaseId, OUTL_ID, MKT_ID, max(cast(TAC_ID as tinyint)) as TAC_ID

    from BaseOutlet

    group by CaseId, OUTL_ID, MKT_ID) DT on A.CaseId = DT.CaseId and A.OUTL_ID = DT.OUTL_ID and A.MKT_ID=DT.MKT_ID and A.TAC_ID = DT.TAC_ID

    Results

    CaseIdOUTL_IDMKT_IDTAC_ID

    1211

    3410

    5611

  • Awesome....thanks Ray

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