Access SQL Query Top 1 of Group

Question

I am trying to write a query that selects the Top record in each Group of Data.

eg Below

Division	Team	Points
1	Liverpool	90
1	Manchester	88
2	Leeds	94
2	Arsenal	77
3	Bolton	66
3	Spurs	72
3	Derby	33

I want my query to return the team with highest number of points in each division:

Division	Team	Points
1	Liverpool	90
2	Leeds	94
3	Spurs	72

I thought this should be easy.

Any ideas?

Thanks

Answer 1

In MS Access, you can use:

select t.*
from t
where t.points = (select max(t2.points)
                  from t t2
                  where t2.division = t.division
                 );

If there are ties, then this returns all matching teams. If you want only one team even when there are ties:

select t.*
from t
where t.team = (select t2.team
                from t t2
                where t2.division = t.division
                order by t2.points desc, t2.team
               );