Graham Cossey wrote:
Could someone please offer a little help.
I have a table like:
Year, Month, Start_date
2004 10 20041102
2004 11 20041203
2004 12 20050104
2005 01 20050204
2005 02 20050303
I need to get the latest Year,Month for a given date, so for example today
(20050204) I should retrieve 2005,01.
As I'm using 4.0.20 I can't use subqueries so how can I create a query that
does this?
SELECT year, month
FROM `dc_months`
WHERE start_date = (SELECT MAX(start_date)
from dc_months
where start_date <= '20050204')
Any help much appreciated
Graham
have a look here :
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/example-maximum-column-group-row.html
it should be useful for you.
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