Posted by Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) on 03/12/07 10:44

<andreas.hei@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you very much, but my question is more like how to get the exact
> VALUE of the field (not the minimum or maximum)?

Not sure what you mean by the exact value of the field. How do you define
last item in column.

Generally that means the min or max value.

If you can give us some example data perhaps we can give a better solution?


>
> is there a command/query for it?
>
>
>
>
> On 7 mar, 18:54, "Plamen Ratchev" <Pla...@SQLStudio.com> wrote:
>> You can use TOP 1 to return only 1 row (based on the ORDER BY), something
>> like this:
>>
>> SELECT TOP 1 COLUMN FROM TABLE ORDER BY COLUMN DESC
>>
>> Also, MIN(COLUMN) and MAX(COLUMN) may work depending on how you define
>> last
>> item, like:
>>
>> SELECT MAX(COLUMN) FROM TABLE
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Plamen Ratchevhttp://www.SQLStudio.com
>
>



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