Hi Mr. Jerry,
Since Mysql does not support sub query, you will have to use temporary
table instead.
Create temporary table tmptbl1 Select keycol, Max(datetimecol) as maxdate
from detailtable group by Keycol;
Create temporary table tmptbl2 Select distinct T.Keycol, D.Status from
tmptbl1 T, de
I often find myself in the following situation:
I have a master table and a detail table, the detail table contains
chronologically ordered items (statuses) that relate to the master record.
I now need to display one line for each of the master records with the
latest status from the detail t