Posted by laptop on 03/31/06 11:07

Sorry, that should read "given that Strawberry's query...".

Confusing hunh?


"laptop" <laptopaliasathotmail.com> wrote in message
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> What was Shaun's solution? I can't see it in the thread. I'm still a
> beginner with this stuff myself but, given that my query does seem to
> return the correct answer, why is it wrong?
>
> Cheers.
> "Stefan Rybacki" <stefan.rybacki@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:493m5jFmnechU2@individual.net...
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>> strawberry schrieb:
>>> I think this is right...
>>>
>>> SELECT propertyid, MAX( valuationdate ) , valuation
>>> FROM properties
>>> GROUP BY propertyid
>>>
>> That doesn't work because valuation is unpredictable and the fact that
>> mysql isn't throwing an error does not meant that this is a wrong query.
>>
>> So better use the solutions from Shaun. And I do even know another
>> solution for the case that there is no LIMIT or TOP available ;)
>>
>> Regards
>> Stefan
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