SQL: Getting the full record with the highest count
I'm trying to write sql that produces the desired result from the data below.
data:
IDNum Opt1 Opt2 Opt3 Count
1 A A E 1
1 A B J 4
2 A A E 9
3 B A F 1
3 B C K 14
4 A A M 3
5 开发者_开发百科 B D G 5
6 C C E 13
6 C C M 1
desired result:
IDNum Opt1 Opt2 Opt3 Count
1 A B J 4
2 A A E 9
3 B C K 14
4 A A M 3
5 B D G 5
6 C C E 13
Essentially I want, for each ID Num, the full record with the highest count. I tried doing a group by, but if I group by Opt1, Opt2, Opt3, this doesn't work because it returns the highest count for each (ID Num, Opt2, Opt3, Opt4) combination which is not what I want. If I only group by ID Num, I can get the max for each ID Num but I lose the information as to which (Opt1, Opt2, Opt3) combination gives this count.
I feel like I've done this before, but I don't often work with sql and I can't remember how. Is there an easy way to do this?
Edit Prior to op clarifying question for access this would have worked. I am not famillar with access to know if this query would be supported.
I think this will work on SQL Server.
select * from data
inner join (select idnum, max(count) from data
group by idNum )sub
on sub.IdNum=data.IdNum && sub.Count=data.Count
Of course if you have two id's with the same count it would return both rows...
Something like this:
SELECT * FROM table AS t1
JOIN ( SELECT id, max(count) as Id FROM table GROUP BY id ) AS t2
ON t1.id = t2.id AND t1.id = t2.id
This assumes that no idnum has the same max count or you'll get two idnums
Try this query:
SELECT * FROM my_table
GROUP BY IDNum
HAVING Count = MAX(Count)
It should work on Access, but I didn't test it.
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