Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/21/05 23:53

Sandy (a@a.com) writes:
> I have a table A (ID, time,...)
>
> first I want to select rows with max value of time. Then from these
> rows I want the row with max ID value. i am doing the following but its
> giving me the error mentioned below
>
> select max(ID) from (select * from A where time in ( select max(time)
> from A ) )
> ERROR: Incorrect syntax near ')'
>
> Where is the problem in my Query.

The problem is that the derived tables requires aliases:

select max(ID) from (select * from A where time in ( select max(time)
from A ) AS X ) AS Y

But maybe this query serves you better:

SELECT A.ID, A.time
FROM A
JOIN (SELECT time = MAX(time) FROM A) AS A1 ON A.time = A1.time



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