How to Get Max Date from GROUP BY - ORACLE

Question

This is probably really basic but SQL is not my strongest skill set. I have a basic SQL query to get the max date of the last inspection completed for a location. I also want to know what type of inspection it was.

So far I have this:

SELECT
        facility_id
        ,max(inspection_date) as last_inspection
        ,inspection_type
    FROM facility_inspections
    GROUP BY facility_id  ,inspection_type

which gives me results that can have max dates for each inspection type for each each facility_id like this:

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facility id | inspection date | inspection type 
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93              04/28/2020        FULL
93              05/16/2018        VISIT
94              04/28/2020        LIMITED
94              06/12/2014        FULL
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I want to return results that look like the follow because those have the true MAX date but also shows me the type of inspection that was completed:

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facility id | inspection date | inspection type 
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93              04/28/2020        FULL
94              04/28/2020        LIMITED
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Answer 1

You can use keep in an aggregation query:

SELECT facility_id, max(inspection_date) as last_inspection,
       max(inspection_type) keep (dense_rank first order by inspection_date desc)
FROM facility_inspections
GROUP BY facility_id;