Ajayendra Raghuvanshi

Sqlserver Max with Over  if you have alteast one entry in your table than this will be fastest Declare @tblMinMaxExample table  (   pk integer not null identity(1,1) primary key,   dataYearMonth integer,   dataYear integer,   dataMonth integer,   recordedValue float,   attributeA varchar(1),   attributeB varchar(1) ) insert into @tblMinMaxExample values (201401, 2014, 1,   200.0, 'A', 'a') insert into @tblMinMaxExample   select '201412', '2014', max(dataMonth) over(order by pk) ,  100.0, 'L', 'l' from @tblMinMaxExample  else use this Declare @tblMinMaxExample table  (   pk integer not null identity(1,1) primary key,   dataYearMonth integer,   dataYear integer,   dataMonth integer,   recordedValue float,   attributeA varchar(1),   attributeB varchar(1) ) --insert into @tblMinMaxExample values (201...