刚刚测试了这个，它似乎在日志记录表上工作

select ColumnNames, max(DateColumn) from log  group by ColumnNames order by 1 desc

如果你在使用Postgres，你可以使用array_agg像

SELECT userid,MAX(adate),(array_agg(value ORDER BY adate DESC))[1] as value
FROM YOURTABLE
GROUP BY userid

我不熟悉甲骨文。这是我想到的

SELECT 
  userid,
  MAX(adate),
  SUBSTR(
    (LISTAGG(value, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY adate DESC)),
    0,
    INSTR((LISTAGG(value, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY adate DESC)), ',')-1
  ) as value 
FROM YOURTABLE
GROUP BY userid 

两个查询返回的结果都与接受的答案相同。看到SQLFiddles:

接受的答案 我对Postgres的解决方案 我对甲骨文的解决方案

难道一个qualified子句不是既简单又最好吗?

select userid, my_date, ...
from users
qualify rank() over (partition by userid order by my_date desc) = 1

对于上下文，在Teradata这里一个像样的大小测试运行在17秒与这个合格版本和在23秒与“内联视图”/Aldridge解决方案#1。

(T-SQL)首先获取所有用户及其最大日期。与表连接以查找maxdates上用户的对应值。

create table users (userid int , value int , date datetime)
insert into users values (1, 1, '20010101')
insert into users values (1, 2, '20020101')
insert into users values (2, 1, '20010101')
insert into users values (2, 3, '20030101')

select T1.userid, T1.value, T1.date 
    from users T1,
    (select max(date) as maxdate, userid from users group by userid) T2    
    where T1.userid= T2.userid and T1.date = T2.maxdate

结果:

userid      value       date                                    
----------- ----------- -------------------------- 
2           3           2003-01-01 00:00:00.000
1           2           2002-01-01 00:00:00.000

在PostgreSQL 8.4或更高版本中，你可以这样使用:

select user_id, user_value_1, user_value_2
  from (select user_id, user_value_1, user_value_2, row_number()
          over (partition by user_id order by user_date desc) 
        from users) as r
  where r.row_number=1

我不知道你的列的确切名称，但它应该是这样的:

SELECT userid, value
FROM users u1
WHERE date = (
    SELECT MAX(date)
    FROM users u2
    WHERE u1.userid = u2.userid
)