select   UserId,max(Date) over (partition by UserId) value from users;

MySQL没有分区KEEP, DENSE_RANK概念的解决方案。

select userid,
       my_date,
       ...
from
(
select @sno:= case when @pid<>userid then 0
                    else @sno+1
    end as serialnumber, 
    @pid:=userid,
       my_Date,
       ...
from   users order by userid, my_date
) a
where a.serialnumber=0

参考:http://benincampus.blogspot.com/2013/08/select-rows-which-have-maxmin-value-in.html

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(UserID, Date)是唯一的，即同一个用户没有出现两次日期，则:

select TheTable.UserID, TheTable.Value
from TheTable inner join (select UserID, max([Date]) MaxDate
                          from TheTable
                          group by UserID) UserMaxDate
     on TheTable.UserID = UserMaxDate.UserID
        TheTable.[Date] = UserMaxDate.MaxDate;

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。

SELECT a.userid,a.values1,b.mm 
FROM table_name a,(SELECT userid,Max(date1)AS mm FROM table_name GROUP BY userid) b
WHERE a.userid=b.userid AND a.DATE1=b.mm;