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Old March 28th, 2007, 03:42 PM
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I am trying to select the last thing in a colum how do I do so?


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The concepts of last and first are based upon the fact that you have a way to sort the data. Do you have a distinct column that you can refer to? (An Auto increment field for example)

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Yes I do have a distinct column

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Then provided your result set looks like this:

Distinct Column ||| Data Column

SELECT [Data Column] From table where [Distinct Column] = (SELECT MAX([Distinct Column]) from Table)

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