Hi Steve,
Steve Kiehl wrote:
I was a bit stumped on a good method to select the second record for
each distinct group in a table. Say I have a table like the following:
NAME
DATE
AMOUNT
joe 2007-10-03 19:44:57 45
joe 2007-10-06 19:46:18 90
joe 2007-10-07 19:37:21 12
matt 2007-10-03 19:36:54 23
matt 2007-10-04 19:37:09 67
steve 2007-10-03 19:36:35 50
steve 2007-10-04 19:36:54 12
steve 2007-10-05 19:37:21 5
If I want the second date for each name in the table, how would I go
about doing that? I've found it easy to get the first date for each
name by a query like this:
SELECT name,MIN(date) FROM table GROUP BY name;
- or -
SELECT name,date FROM table GROUP BY name ORDER BY date;
I still am stumped on how I could get the record pertaining to the
second date for each name in the table. Your thoughts?
You can use a variation on the techniques here:
http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/12/07/how-to-select-the-firstleastmax-row-per-group-in-sql/
Baron
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