[AccessD] Last Date Query

Since now two posts have been made since I offered my idea that what was
really wanted was Max.... and neither commented one way or another on my
query .... what was incorrect about how I did it?
On Dec 22, 2011 3:22 PM, "Steve Schapel" <steve at datamanagementsolutions.biz>
wrote:

> Agreed.  Assuming you mean the most recent date, i.e. Max rather than
> Last, then Arthur's suggestion is how I would do it.
>
> Regards
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Arthur Fuller
> Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 1:05 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Last Date Query
>
> I think what you want is this:
>
> SELECT TOP 1 tbl1.Pat, tbl1.Date AS LastDate, tbl1.Result
> FROM tbl1
> ORDER BY tbl1.Date DESC;
>
> HTH,
> Arthur
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:35 AM, <pedro at plex.nl> wrote:
>
>
>> Hello Group, i want the last dat from tbl1
>>
>> Pat     Date       Result
>> A1     01-01-11    15
>> A1     10-10-11     7
>> A1     11-11-11     6
>>
>> When i use the query:
>>
>> SELECT tbl1.Pat, Last(tbl1.Date) AS LastDate, tbl1.Result
>> FROM tbl1
>> GROUP BY tbl1.Pat, tbl1.Result;
>>
>> Then is stil have these three records because of the Result
>>
>> What i need is only record that is really the last date, regardless what
>> value there is for result
>>
>> Pat     LastDate         Result
>> A1     11-11-11           6
>>
>>
>> I have done this before, but i can't remember how.
>> Is has to been done with a subquery.
>>
>> Who can help me?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Pedro
>> --
>>
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