SQL command to find when a document was last printed?

Question

I have a table of document names and dates when they were printed. Say:

aaa    2006-09-15
aaa    2007-09-15
abc    2013-08-12
abc    2012-08-12

After the command executes I need:

aaa 2007-09-15
abc 2013-08-12

I got something close to a correct output but it involved temporary tables. I'm trying to put this into Microsoft BIDS and it doesn't like me using #temp_table.

Ideas?

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT doc_name, max(date_printed) FROM your_table GROUP BY doc_name;

Here's the fiddle so you can check http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/dd156/3