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Re: How do I write this sql statement

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From tony@mountifield.org (Tony Mountifield)
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Subject Re: How do I write this sql statement
Date Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:42:07 +0000 (UTC)
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In article <kg2mau$13a$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony <tony.johansson@inport.com> wrote:
> In the database we have a column called grefnr and loopnr.
> Each record could have something like the following se below. I want to
> select the record with the highest loopnr number for every grefnr.
> In this example I would get the following three record  1 78 and 2  95 and 3
> 99
> How can I write this sql
> grefnr    loopnr
> 1               34
> 1                12
> 1                78
> 1                35
> 2               4
> 2                72
> 2                70
> 2                95
> 3               11
> 3                16
> 3                99
> 3                7

Try this:

SELECT grefnr,MAX(loopnr) FROM yourtable GROUP BY grefnr

Cheers
Tony
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