SQL select max(date) and corresponding value [duplicate]

Answer 1

Each MAX function is evaluated individually. So MAX(CompletedDate) will return the value of the latest CompletedDate column and MAX(Notes) will return the maximum (i.e. alphabeticaly highest) value.

You need to structure your query differently to get what you want. This question had actually already been asked and answered several times, so I won't repeat it:

How to find the record in a table that contains the maximum value?

Finding the record with maximum value in SQL

Answer 2

There's no easy way to do this, but something like this will work:

SELECT ET.TrainingID, 
  ET.CompletedDate, 
  ET.Notes
FROM 
HR_EmployeeTrainings ET
inner join
(
  select TrainingID, Max(CompletedDate) as CompletedDate
  FROM HR_EmployeeTrainings
  WHERE (ET.AvantiRecID IS NULL OR ET.AvantiRecID = @avantiRecID)
  GROUP BY AvantiRecID, TrainingID  
) ET2 
  on ET.TrainingID = ET2.TrainingID
  and ET.CompletedDate = ET2.CompletedDate

Answer 3

You can use a subquery. The subquery will get the Max(CompletedDate). You then take this value and join on your table again to retrieve the note associate with that date:

select ET1.TrainingID,
  ET1.CompletedDate,
  ET1.Notes
from HR_EmployeeTrainings ET1
inner join
(
  select Max(CompletedDate) CompletedDate, TrainingID
  from HR_EmployeeTrainings
  --where AvantiRecID IS NULL OR AvantiRecID = @avantiRecID
  group by TrainingID
) ET2
  on ET1.TrainingID = ET2.TrainingID
  and ET1.CompletedDate = ET2.CompletedDate
where ET1.AvantiRecID IS NULL OR ET1.AvantiRecID = @avantiRecID

Answer 4

Ah yes, that is how it is intended in SQL. You get the Max of every column seperately. It seems like you want to return values from the row with the max date, so you have to select the row with the max date. I prefer to do this with a subselect, as the queries keep compact easy to read.

SELECT TrainingID, CompletedDate, Notes
FROM HR_EmployeeTrainings ET 
WHERE (ET.AvantiRecID IS NULL OR ET.AvantiRecID = @avantiRecID) 
AND CompletedDate in 
   (Select Max(CompletedDate) from HR_EmployeeTrainings B
    where B.TrainingID = ET.TrainingID)

If you also want to match by AntiRecID you should include that in the subselect as well.