On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 08:50:56AM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-23 02:35]: > > What you have to do is: > > > > SELECT qi, ri, drl, score > > FROM ... > > WHERE score=(SELECT max(score) FROM ...) > > Actually, in cases such as this, the easiest approach is to use > `LIMIT`: > > SELECT qi, ri, drl, score > FROM ... > WHERE ... > ORDER BY score DESC > LIMIT 1
Only if "cases such as this" is defined as "datasets where only one record has the maximum score" (which may be the case that Brannon presented -- I don't recall offhand). Otherwise, the two queries above are semantically different and should reasonably be expected to return different results. - Adrian
