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From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: Extract only maximum date from column
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On Thu, 4 Dec 2025, Ron Johnson wrote:

> May not be the only way, but it's how I do it:
> SELECT *
> FROM foo
> WHERE some_dt = (SELECT MAX(some_dt) FROM foo);
>
> It might return more than one row...

Ron,

Didn't quite work for me this way:

select p.person_nbr, p.company_nbr, c.next_contact
from people as p, contacts as c
where c.next_contact (select max(c.next_contact) from c.contacts) >= '2025-11-01'
group by p.person_nbr, p.company_nbr
order by p.person_nbr, p.company_nbr;

Thanks,

Rich