Find a unique max date

[reivax31]

Hi Qlikers,

I have a table and based on several conditions I want to find a unique date for each ID.

The table is:

ID	NUM	NAME	DATE
1	10	John	01/03/2016
1	20	Mike	12/03/2016
1	30	Tom	14/03/2016
2	10	John	04/03/2016
2	20	Tom	10/03/2016
2	30	Mike	10/03/2016
2	40	David	06/03/2016

So basicaly the first think to do is to find the max DATE for each ID. For some ID you can have several lines with the same max DATE. In this case we look for the max NUM.

The expected result is:

ID	NUM	NAME	DATE
1	30	Tom	14/03/2016
2	30	Mike	10/03/2016

I tried a few things with GROUP BY, but the reultisn't there yet.

Thanks for your help

[sunny_talwar · Accepted solution]

May be this:

Table:

LOAD ID,

     NUM,

     NAME,

     DATE

FROM

[https://community.qlik.com/thread/211746]

(html, codepage is 1252, embedded labels, table is @1);

Right Join(Table)

LOAD ID,

  Max(DATE) as DATE

Resident Table

Group By ID;

Right Join (Table)

LOAD ID,

  Max(NUM) as NUM

Resident Table

Group By ID;

[Kushal_Chawda]

On front end,

Create the straight table

Dimension:

ID

Expressions:

1) Date-

     FirstSortedValue (distinct Date,-Date)

2) Name-

     FirstSortedValue (distinct only({<Num={"$(=max(Num)"}>}Name),-Date)

3) Num -

     FirstSortedValue (distinct Sum({<Num={"$(=max(Num)"}>}Num),-Date)

[sunny_talwar]

I would use these expressions for 2 and 3

2) FirstSortedValue (NAME,-(DATE*10000+NUM))

3) FirstSortedValue (NUM,-(DATE*10000+NUM))

[reddy-s]

Hi Xavier,

Doing this, you will be able to fetch the max date for every unique ID

Check this out:

Load ID,

FirstSortedValue (distinct DATE,-DATE) resident ........;

Thanks,

Sangram Reddy.

[Kushal_Chawda]

Can you explain how it works? sunindia‌

[sunny_talwar]

Sure.

Same idea of trying to find the max (or min) based on another field, but in this case multiple fields. So to combine the multiple fields sorting, you can add them. Look at the image below

From just DATE we have a tie for ID 2 for NUM 20 and 30. But if I combine these two DATE*10000+NUM (More weight to the DATE and hence times 10000). Now the new number we just created will pick the right max based on DATE and NUM.

Does that make sense?

[Kushal_Chawda]

ek number bhai sunindia‌

[sunny_talwar]

[Kushal_Chawda]

Is it good w.r.t performance?