Thanks ,
this one works beautifully.
Alex
PS: also thanks to the other suggestions, have a look at this one
hubert depesz lubaczewski wrote:
> On 12/7/05, *Alex* <alex@meerkatsoft.com
> <mailto:alex@meerkatsoft.com>> wrote:
>
> I have a table where I store changes made to an order. The looks like
> ProdID, ChangeDate, Change1, Change2, ... etc.
> Some ProdIDs have multiple records.
> Is there an easy way to delete all records of a ProdID except the
> most
> recent (ChangeDate is timestamp) one? Preferably in one SQL statement?
>
>
> delete from table_name where exists (select * from table_name x where
> x.prodid = table_name.prodid and x.changedate > table_name.changedate);
>
> this should work.
>
> depesz