T-SQL - SELECT by nearest date and GROUPED BY ID

Question

From the data below I need to select the record nearest to a specified date for each Linked ID using SQL Server 2005:

ID     Date      Linked ID         


        

Answer 1

You can also try to do it with a subquery in the select statement:

select  [LinkedId],
        (select top 1 [Date] from [Table] where [LinkedId]=x.[LinkedId] order by abs(DATEDIFF(DAY,[Date],@date)))
from    [Table] X
group by [LinkedId]