Group by SQL Help

I have a table with telnumbers and versionnumber along with some other columns.
( the table doesnt have any primary keys )
I have to write a query that gets all the rows with distinct telnumbers and only selecting the highest versionnumbers.
something like
select * from tableA group by telnumbers, versionnumber having distinct(telnumbers) max(versionnumber)=versionnumber
thanks

Untested:
select telnumbers
     , max(versionnumber)
  from tableA
group by telnumbersRegards,
Rob.

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