Sql with groups, aggregates and fields of that aggregates

Question

lets say I have a table Students and want to group the students by major, and then for each group display the maximum age, and them for that maximum age display the name of that student
I know how to do the grouping and max aggregate, I know how to do the max aggregate and the name of the max aggregate, but I'm having trouble doing all 3 together. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

ok, well I was using an hypotethical example. What I'm really dealing with are many fields with from many tables and 2 groups with 2 nested aggregates. The original query from Crystal Reports doesnt use aggregates, its all done within report. I'm converting it to SSRS which doesnt support nested aggregates so I'm trying to do one of the aggregates in the query and then the other aggregate within the report.
table students:
name
age
major
so the original query would look like:
select name, age, major
from student
I'm trying to do something like:
select max(age), name from max(age), major
from student
group by major
Edited by: nwill on Feb 19, 2009 3:22 PM