RE: SQL - select the record with the highest count value within afield

Forgive me.  Can I make it a bit more challenging by adding one more
field to the data? 
Example:
Data:
FIELD1   FIELD2    FIELD3    COUNTFIELD
AAA      A12       D1          5
AAA      A13       D5          2
AAA      A14       D2          1
BBB      B17       CC          5
BBB      B13       DC          5
BBB      B15       D1          1

Result needed (Assuming FIELD1 is the field where the highest 
COUNTFIELD need to select from)
FIELD1   FIELD2    FIELD3   COUNTFIELD
AAA      A12       D1          5
BBB      B17       CC          5

Or

FIELD1   FIELD2    FIELD3   COUNTFIELD
AAA      A12       D1          5
BBB      B13       DC          5

I think to add a third field as you mentioned, you would just need to 
extend Birgitta's example with one more Common Table Expression:

     c as (Select  b.Field1, b.maxfield2, Maxcount, Max(Field3) as 
MaxField3
              from b join MyTable x
                on b.Field1 = x.Field1 and b.maxfield2=x.field2 and 
a.CountField = MaxCount)
select y.*
from MyTable y join c 
     on y.Field1 = c.Field1 and y.Field2 = c.MaxField2 and y.field3 = 
c.MaxField 3 and CountField = MaxCount

I think a simliar technique would work for n fields, but as some point 
this becomes really ugly and you probably want to consider using record 
I/O and SETGT.

HTH,
Adam





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