Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Tony Johansson" Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: How do I write this sql statement Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 11:44:31 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 17 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 10:44:38 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="da50b8a0e4970e2b9711eebf9392fd1d"; logging-data="7863"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+wylIJT8qHtmD41s+iLtIC" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6002.18463 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6002.18197 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ue78vnw6f7Ku9FmUCYWCDVimXo0= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:1362 Hello! In a field in the database called Cid we have a format like year-35-X So in the database we can have numbers that can look like this. 2012-35-1 2012-35-2 ... 2012-35-56 2012-35-0145 If I want a select statement that return the largest number for X how can I write this ? So if we have 2012-35-0194 in the database field Cid I want to get back 195 ? //Tony