Sql statement which will give me the last date of transaction

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I want to build a query in which i have to display the last date of transaction for every single commodity, every time the transaction happens on each day.

Plz need some help.

Posted 13-Jun-12 0:24am

Nikil0012

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Abhinav S · Answer 1 · 2012-06-13T00:36:00

Solution 1

You can simply order by date after filtering by transaction id using the where clause.
e.g select * from transactiontable where transactionid = [] order by transactiondate desc
will give you the last transaction date in the first row.

Posted 13-Jun-12 0:36am

Abhinav S

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RDBurmon 13-Jun-12 9:18am

slight modification with respect to performance improvement
select top 1 * from transactiontable where transactionid = [] order by transactiondate desc

Espen Harlinn 15-Jun-12 3:13am

5'ed!

Abhinav S 15-Jun-12 3:39am

Thank you.