Get most recent event using JOIN

Question

I have 2 tables, for example:

Table1

ID,Name,Address1

Table2

Visit_date,item,id

Table 2 has lots of visits logged, and the id of the address.

I want to write a query that selects all Names and Addresses and their LAST visit date and item.

SELECT * 
FROM (SELECT ID, NAME, ADDRESS FROM table1) as temp 
RIGHT JOIN table2 ON table1.ID = temp.ID;

Is as far as I have gotten so far.

Answer 1

This may be a case for cross-apply

select T1.ID, T1.Name, T1.Address1, T2.item, T2.Visit_date from
Table1 T1 cross apply (select top 1 * from Table2 where ID = Table1.ID 
order by     Visit_date desc) T2

Answer 2

You could use ROW_NUMBER in a CTE.

;WITH cte AS (
    SELECT t1.name, t1.address1, t2.Visit_date, t2.item, 
        ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY t2.id ORDER BY t2.visit_date DESC) AS rn
FROM table2 t2
INNER JOIN table1 t1
    ON t1.id = t2.id
)
SELECT name, address1, visit_date, item
FROM cte
WHERE rn = 1

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