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Old July 28th, 2007, 02:34 AM
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SQL Query Help - Selecting the most recent record

Hi guys, thanks for taking a look.

I have two tables, let's say Name and Address. Name has the columns 'NameID' 'FirstName' and 'LastName'. Address has 'NameID' 'Line1' 'Line2' and 'LastConfirmed'.

What I want to do is

select FirstName,Lastname,Line1,Line2 from Name a
join Address b
on a.NameID = b.NameID

But I only want the most recent record in the Address table to be returned, based on something like 'order by LastConfirmed desc'. Any ideas how to do this?

Restrictions:
1. The table I am working with cannot be modified/columns added.
2. No additional permanent tables can be created.

Thanks!

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If you have 'LastConfirmed' column as DATETIME the one approch is use
Order by datediff(dd,LastConfirmed,getdate())
in your query.

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