Re: Help Retrieving Latest Record

It would be something like:

select * from basket where Date=(SELECT max(Date) from basket);



At 09:41 AM 2/16/2001 -0500, Steve Meynell wrote:
>Hi,  I am not sure if this went through the first time so here it is again.
>
>
>Ok what I am trying to do is select out of the database the latest record 
>meeting a certain criteria.
>
>Example:
>
>Number             |        Fruit         |     Date
>15                                Apples          July 20, 1999
>20                                Oranges        June 7, 2000
>13                                 Pears            Jan 31, 2000
>17                                 Apples         April 10, 1999
>Now what I need to do is select the oranges out because the date is the 
>latest one, something like:
>
>select * from basket where max(date);
>This would yield me:
>20                                Oranges        June 7, 2000
>
>I know this doesn't work but I need something like it.
>or something like
>
>select * from basket where max(date) and fruit='Apples';
>This would yield me:
>15                                Apples          July 20, 1999
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>--
>Steve Meynell
>Candata Systems