SQL join: selecting the last records in a one-to-many relationship

Question

Suppose I have a table of customers and a table of purchases. Each purchase belongs to one customer. I want to get a list of all customers along with their last purchase in

Answer 1

I found this thread as a solution to my problem.

But when I tried them the performance was low. Bellow is my suggestion for better performance.

With MaxDates as (
SELECT  customer_id,
                MAX(date) MaxDate
        FROM    purchase
        GROUP BY customer_id
)

SELECT  c.*, M.*
FROM    customer c INNER JOIN
        MaxDates as M ON c.id = M.customer_id 

Hope this will be helpful.