garry <ga...@scholarpack.com> wrote:

> I have a table which holds a user name and their results in exams. There  
> can be multiple entries per user. I am trying to return the last entry  
> for each user. I can get the last entry in the table using the order  
> by/limit method but how would this be applied per user. My table  
> definition is like the following:
>
>> gradeid serial primary key,
>> user text,
>> grade char(1),
>> entered timestamp,
> Any help would be appreciated.
> Regards
> Garry

What about "select user, max(entered) from table group by user" ?

Btw.: user is a reserved word, don't use it as column-name.



Andreas
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