tony wrote:
Hi,

I thought this would be a classic sort of query but google did no give
me the answer.

I am attempting to select records where one of the dates is the latest
date before today

select max(date) from expo where date < now()

works for one record but other fields I need must be in aggregate or
grouped. Is there a simple SQL request to get the most recent records
from a set of joined tables?

SELECT * FROM expo WHERE date = (SELECT max(date) FROM expo WHERE date < now());


In fact, you might want to rewrite the subselect. Oh, and "date" is likely to cause trouble as a column-name.

SELECT * FROM expo
WHERE my_date = (
        SELECT my_date FROM expo
        WHERE my_date < now()
        ORDER BY my_date DESC LIMIT 1
)


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