Tewfic, Tuesday, October 01, 2002, 12:21:09 AM, you wrote:
TK> Hello, I have a table that keeps track of people and their office visits. TK> This table will have duplicates since people will visit the office more than TK> once... TK> How can I get a list of people and the most recent time they've visited the TK> office? TK> Currently, I use TK> select * from table_name where date < '2002-06-18'; TK> but that gives me a list that includes duplicate people, if I use 'group by TK> name' it give me the first listing of that person, which may not be the most TK> recent... SELECT *, MAX(date) FROM table_name WHERE date< '2002-06-18' GROUP BY name; -- For technical support contracts, goto https://order.mysql.com/?ref=ensita This email is sponsored by Ensita.net http://www.ensita.net/ __ ___ ___ ____ __ / |/ /_ __/ __/ __ \/ / Egor Egorov / /|_/ / // /\ \/ /_/ / /__ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /_/ /_/\_, /___/\___\_\___/ MySQL AB / Ensita.net <___/ www.mysql.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
