Re: Extract only maximum date from column

On Thu, 4 Dec 2025, David G. Johnston wrote:

> I would go with a lateral join subquery of the contracts table. Using an
> aggregates to perform ranking is an anti-pattern. You want the contract
> ranked first when ordered by contract_date. Either use a window function
> to explicitly rank the contracts or use a limit/fetch clause to simply
> return the first ordered one.

David,

It's 'contacts' rather than 'contracts'; a minor typo.

I'll read on making a lateral join. Thanks.

> You also seem to have completely missed joining people to contracts -
> suggest using explicit “join” clauses to make that error less likely.

Oops! My bad. Fixed.

Regards,

Rich