Get max value with other fields

Question

Hi All,
I have a table as below
Name Value
A1     5
A3 10
A2 7
A2 9
A1 10
What I would like to get is the max(Value) and with grouping of its name
Name     Value
A2 16
Thanks
Alex
Edited by: user8606416 on 01-Jun-2011 10:17
Edited by: user8606416 on 01-Jun-2011 10:26

Answer 1

Depending on how you feel about ties one of:
SELECT name, value
FROM (SELECT name, SUM(value)
      FROM table
      GROUP BY name
      ORDER BY 2 DESC)
WHERE rownum = 1
SELECT name, SUM(value)
FROM table
GROUP BY name
HAVING SUM(value) >= ALL (SELECT SUM(value)
                          FROM table
                          GROUP BY name)among many other methods. The first will pick a single arbitrary record in case of a tie, the seond will show all of the tied records.
John