I have a table with userid, attribute_name, value_date_time. I want to report a single row for each user that shows the latest entry in the table based on the timestamp inserted into value_date_time. Any help much appreciated.

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You'll have to query for the maximum date attribute and then use that to select the record that matches it. Something similar to the following: 
SELECT t1.userid,t1.attribute_name,t1.value_date_time
FROM table_name t1, (SELECT t2.userid,t2.attribute_name,
                     MAX(t2.value_date_time) as max_time
                     FROM table_name) t2
WHERE t1.userid=t2.userid AND t1.attribute_name=t2.attribute_name
  AND t1.value_date_time = t2.max_time;

This was first published in April 2006

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