Get Latest Entry for each Item

Question

I have a table that has items with multiple entries per item.  Each entry has a date of when it was entered.  I want to get unique entries with the latest date. For example,
From this:
item
date
item1 12/13/2014
item1 12/15/2014
item2 12/10/2014
item2 12/19/2014
To this:
item
date
item1 12/15/2014
item2 12/19/2014
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Give this a try:
DECLARE @items TABLE (itemName VARCHAR(20), itemDate DATE)
INSERT INTO @items (itemName, itemDate) VALUES ('item1', '12/13/2014'),('item1', '12/15/2014'),('item2', '12/10/2014'),('item2', '12/19/2014')
SELECT *
FROM @items i
WHERE i.itemDate = (
SELECT MAX(itemDate)
FROM @items
WHERE i.itemName = itemName