one-to-many query selecting all parents and single top child for each parent

Question

There are two SQL tables:

Parents:
+--+---------+
|id|   text  |
+--+---------+
| 1|  Blah   |
| 2|  Blah2  |
| 3|  Blah3  |
+--+---------+

Childs
+--+-----         


        

Answer 1

This should work:

SELECT p.id, p.text, c.id, c.parent,c.feature
FROM parent p
 LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT TOP 1 child.id,
                               child.parent,
                               MAX(child.feature)
                  FROM child
                  WHERE child.parent = p.id
                  GROUP BY child.id, child.parent
                  ) c ON p.id = c.parent