SQL how to find rows which have highest value of specific column

Question

For example, the table has columns MYINDEX and NAME.

MYINDEX | NAME
=================
1       | BOB
2       | BOB
3       | CHARLES

Ho do

Answer 1

There are several ways to tackle this one. I'm assuming that there may be other columns that you want from the row, otherwise as others have said, simply name, MAX(my_index) ... GROUP BY name will work. Here are a couple of examples:

SELECT
    MT.name,
    MT.my_index
FROM
(
    SELECT
        name,
        MAX(my_index) AS max_my_index
    FROM
        My_Table
    GROUP BY
        name
) SQ
INNER JOIN My_Table MT ON
    MT.name = SQ.name AND
    MT.my_index = SQ.max_my_index

Another possible solution:

SELECT
    MT1.name,
    MT1.my_index
FROM
    My_Table MT1
WHERE
    NOT EXISTS
    (
        SELECT *
        FROM
            My_Table MT2
        WHERE
            MT2.name = MT1.name AND
            MT2.my_index > MT1.my_index
    )