SQL Select latest record for employee if value is “Selected”

Question

I have a "status history" table that contains a list of employee's employment statuses. What I would like to do is grab a list of each employees latest record if and only if their status value is "Up To Date".

So far, this is the query I have with pseudo code

SELECT * 
FROM EMP.EmployeeRecords
WHERE (THE LATEST STATUS RECORD) StatusValue = 'Up To Date'

Answer 1

I think you are looking for the MAX() function John. Take a look at the following for the definition:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187751.aspx

Taking some assumptions into account:

Lets say that you have a EmployeeRecordsID on the EMP.EmployeeRecords table which is an auto-incrementing identity column as well as an EmployeeName to differentiate the different employees; to get the latest record where the StatusValue = 'Up To Date' you would do something like the following

select 
  LatestID = MAX(EmployeeRecordsID)
  , EmployeeName
from EMP.EmployeeRecords
where StatusValue = 'Up To Date'
group by EmployeeName

Answer 2

Your question is quite poorly formed. You should have sample data and desired layouts, as well as tagging the question with the database you are using.

Guessing at the structure of data, here is with a correlated subquery:

SELECT e.* 
FROM EMP.EmployeeRecords e
WHERE e.statusdate = (select max(e2.statusdate) 
                      from emp.EmployeeRecords e2
                      where e2.employeeid = e.employeeid
                     ) and
      e.StatusValue = 'Up To Date';