RE: SQL MAX in Select with Group -- MIDRANGE-L

DISTINCT(B.GPKEY) could also be used to spotlight the "bad data"

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 6:11 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SQL MAX in Select with Group

Like this:

SELECT A.HRSTNO, A.HRADTE, A.HRAPNO, A.HRPSS#,
A.HRRSTS,Max(B.GPKEY) FROM hrsaplp a, gecapdp b WHERE A.HRSTNO= b.gpstor and A.HRAPNO = b.gpapnm and a.hrrsts = '9' and hradte between 20140727 and 20140728 GROUP BY A.HRSTNO, A.HRADTE, A.HRAPNO, A.HRPSS#, A.HRRSTS ORDER BY a.hrstno

Aha! It's actually a MIN value I need...it's a character field with a different length and left justified. Seems like there was some bad data about a year ago...interesting.

thanks!

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Gary Thompson <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Include columns not aggregated in a Group By clause

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Michael Ryan
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 5:55 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: SQL MAX in Select with Group

Argh...it's always something. I have this:

Select A.HRSTNO, A.HRADTE, A.HRAPNO,
A.HRPSS#, A.HRRSTS, B.GPKEY FROM hrsaplp a, gecapdp b WHERE A.HRSTNO=
b.gpstor and A.HRAPNO = b.gpapnm and a.hrrsts = '9'
and hradte between 20140727 and 20140728 Order By a.hrstno

And I'm finding some dups (first time ever). So I want to get the max
value of B.GPKEY. However, when I change it to MAX(B.GPKEY), I get this:

Column HRSTNO or expression in SELECT list not valid.

How can I have the aggregate function MAX with this SELECT?

Thanks!
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