Keith

>i'm trying to find the max value of a certain field and return a field
linked with the max value. The tables:

>planets--
>population
>government
>sysID

>systems--
>sysID

>For examples sake lets say we are searching through three sysID's. For each
sysID I want to look in planets and >calculate the largest population value
where the sysID's are the same then return the government value for the
planet >with the largest population for each sysID.


You mean ...

SELECT government
FROM planets
WHERE population = (SELECT MAX(population) FROM planets);

?

PB

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