Re: SQL question: Highest column value of unique column pairs

Kevin Jenkins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following table which holds the result of 1 on 1 matches:
>
> FName1, LName1, Score1, FName2, LName2, Score2, Date
> John, Doe, 85 Bill, Gates, 20 Jan 1.
> John, Archer, 90 John, Doe, 120 Jan 5
> Bob, Barker, 70 Calvin, Klien 8 Jan 8
> John, Doe, 60 Bill, Gates, 25 Jan 3.
>
> So columns 1 and 2 hold the first person. Column 3 holds his score.
> Columns 4 and 5 hold the second person. Column 6 holds his score.
>
> I want to return the most recent score for each person (be they an
> opponent or myself). And the resultant table shouldn't care if they are
> person 1 or 2.
>
> So the end result would be
>
> FName, LName, Score, Date
> John, Doe, 120 Jan 5.
> John, Archer 90 Jan 5.
> Bob, Barker 70 Jan 8
> Bill, Gates 25 Jan 3
> Calvin Klien 8 Jan 8
>
> Thanks for any help!
>

First I would say you should have one person in a row and have another
table to join them like you want.

Try (untested just guessing) -

select fnam1 as fname,lname1 as lname, score1 as score
from myscorestable

union

select fnam2 as fname,lname2 as lname, score2 as score
from myscorestable

order by 3

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