Select multiple columns from a table, but group by one

Question

The table name is \"OrderDetails\" and columns are given below:

OrderDetailID || ProductID || ProductName || OrderQuantity

I\'m trying to s

Answer 1

I had a similar problem to the OP. Then I saw the answer from @Urs Marian which helped a lot. But additionally what I was looking for is, when there are multiple values in a column and they will be grouped, how I can get the last submitted value (e.g. ordered by a date/id column).

Example:

We have following table structure:

CREATE TABLE tablename(
    [msgid] [int] NOT NULL,
    [userid] [int] NOT NULL,
    [username] [varchar](70) NOT NULL,
    [message] [varchar](5000) NOT NULL
) 

Now there are at least two datasets in the table:

+-------+--------+----------+---------+
| msgid | userid | username | message |
+-------+--------+----------+---------+
|     1 |      1 | userA    | hello   |
|     2 |      1 | userB    | world   |
+-------+--------+----------+---------+

Therefore following SQL script does work (checked on MSSQL) to group it, also if the same userid has different username values. In the example below, the username with the highest msgid will be shown:

SELECT m.userid, 
(select top 1 username from table where userid = m.userid order by msgid desc) as username,
count(*) as messages
FROM tablename m
GROUP BY m.userid
ORDER BY count(*) DESC