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D3mon
Senior Member

United Kingdom
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Posted - 23 December 2003 :  06:35:38  Show Profile  Visit D3mon's Homepage
Can anyone help with this?

I've three tables tblProjects, tblProjectStatus and tblProjectUpdates

A Project can only have one Status, but many Updates.

I've been using this Access 2000 query to just grab a list of projects and their relevant status:

SELECT
  [ProjectID],  
  [ProjTitle],
  [ProjDescr],
  [tblProjectStatus].[ProjStatusDescr]
FROM tblProjects
INNER JOIN tblProjectStatus
  ON [tblProjects].[ProjStatusID]=[tblProjectStatus].[ProjectStatusID]
ORDER BY [LastUpdated] DESC;


Now,I've added the Updates Table, I'd like to grab just the very latest Update relating to each project. I tried this:

SELECT
  [ProjectID],  
  [ProjTitle],
  [ProjDescr],
  [tblProjectStatus].[ProjStatusDescr]
  (
     SELECT TOP 1
       Author,
       UpdateText
     FROM tblProjectUpdates
     WHERE tblProjects.ProjectID = tblProjectUpdates.ProjectID   
  )
FROM tblProjects
INNER JOIN tblProjectStatus
  ON [tblProjects].[ProjStatusID]=[tblProjectStatus].[ProjectStatusID]
ORDER BY [LastUpdated] DESC;

But no joy. Sadly, Access is rather less specific than SQL in it's error descriptions.

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pweighill
Junior Member

United Kingdom
453 Posts
Posted - 23 December 2003 :  07:08:19  Show Profile
You can't return two fields in the subselect at the same time, also you proabably want to include an order by in the subselect as well.

SELECT
  [ProjectID],  
  [ProjTitle],
  [ProjDescr],
  [tblProjectStatus].[ProjStatusDescr]
  (
     SELECT TOP 1
       Author
     FROM tblProjectUpdates
     WHERE tblProjects.ProjectID = tblProjectUpdates.ProjectID   
     ORDER BY ????
  ) AS Author
  (
     SELECT TOP 1
       UpdateText
     FROM tblProjectUpdates
     WHERE tblProjects.ProjectID = tblProjectUpdates.ProjectID   
     ORDER BY ????
  ) AS UpdateText
FROM tblProjects
INNER JOIN tblProjectStatus
  ON [tblProjects].[ProjStatusID]=[tblProjectStatus].[ProjectStatusID]
ORDER BY [LastUpdated] DESC;
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D3mon
Senior Member

United Kingdom
1685 Posts
Posted - 23 December 2003 :  08:15:30  Show Profile  Visit D3mon's Homepage
Given this is my first venture into Access-based SQL (my experience is in SQL 2000 SP's), I decided to recode, using a seperate query for the additional data. Thank you for your input though.

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D3mon
Senior Member

United Kingdom
1685 Posts
Posted - 24 December 2003 :  04:33:26  Show Profile  Visit D3mon's Homepage
are there any online guides/resources for hand-writing MS Access Queries?

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Nathan
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Posted - 24 December 2003 :  06:48:13  Show Profile  Visit Nathan's Homepage
I havn't really ever found a good Access Resource. I've kinda learned it by trial and error.

I do believe that could be expressed as a join. Something like

SELECT
  [ProjectID],  
  [ProjTitle],
  [ProjDescr],
  [tblProjectStatus].[ProjStatusDescr],
  [Author],
  [UdateText]
FROM (tblProjects
INNER JOIN tblProjectStatus
  ON [tblProjects].[ProjStatusID]=[tblProjectStatus].[ProjectStatusID])
LEFT JOIN tblProjectUpdates ON (tblProjects.ProjectID = tblProjectUpdates.ProjectID AND tblProjectUpdates.id = MAX(tblProjectUpdates.id))
GROUP BY
  [ProjectID],  
  [ProjTitle],
  [ProjDescr],
  [tblProjectStatus].[ProjStatusDescr],
  [Author],
  [UdateText]
ORDER BY [LastUpdated] DESC;
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Edited by - Nathan on 24 December 2003 06:48:36
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