SQL Q

• ywyk2

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  September 15, 2008 at 5:43 pm

  #197855

  I'm new here, so i this is in the wrong forum I apologize.

  Question:

  Let's say I have two columns. A date, and a number that can repeat itself. If I want the earliest date for the last time entering somenum 1. How do I write that in SQL? I've thrown analytical functions, group bys, havings, you name it at it.

  Eg.

  date,somenum

  '08/05/2008',1

  '08/06/2008',1

  '08/07/2008',1

  '08/08/2008',2

  '08/09/2008',2

  '08/10/2008',1

  '08/11/2008',1

  I need 8/10/2008. In other words, the first date for the last time we were at somenum 1.

  I want to do this in a select. No loops or cursors.

  Any ideas?

• happycat59

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  September 15, 2008 at 9:40 pm

  #872114

  You probably need code like

  SELECT somenum, min (date)

  from yourtable

  group by somenum

• arjun.tewari

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  September 16, 2008 at 12:17 am

  #872141

  for the last time entering somenum 1

  Please clarify