SELECT documentid, 
       status, 
       datecreated 
FROM   documentstatuslogs dlogs 
WHERE  status = (SELECT status 
                 FROM   documentstatuslogs 
                 WHERE  documentid = dlogs.documentid 
                 ORDER  BY datecreated DESC 
                 LIMIT  1) 

我刚学会如何使用交叉应用。下面是如何在这种情况下使用它:

 select d.DocumentID, ds.Status, ds.DateCreated 
 from Documents as d 
 cross apply 
     (select top 1 Status, DateCreated
      from DocumentStatusLogs 
      where DocumentID = d.DocumentId
      order by DateCreated desc) as ds

I've done some timings over the various recommendations here, and the results really depend on the size of the table involved, but the most consistent solution is using the CROSS APPLY These tests were run against SQL Server 2008-R2, using a table with 6,500 records, and another (identical schema) with 137 million records. The columns being queried are part of the primary key on the table, and the table width is very small (about 30 bytes). The times are reported by SQL Server from the actual execution plan.

Query                                  Time for 6500 (ms)    Time for 137M(ms)

CROSS APPLY                                    17.9                17.9
SELECT WHERE col = (SELECT MAX(COL)…)           6.6               854.4
DENSE_RANK() OVER PARTITION                     6.6               907.1

我认为真正令人惊讶的是，无论涉及的行数是多少，CROSS APPLY的时间都是如此一致。

我知道这是一个旧的线程，但TOP 1与TIES解决方案是相当不错的，可能有助于阅读一些解决方案。

select top 1 with ties
   DocumentID
  ,Status
  ,DateCreated
from DocumentStatusLogs
order by row_number() over (partition by DocumentID order by DateCreated desc)

select top 1 with ties子句告诉SQL Server要返回每个组的第一行。但是SQL Server如何知道如何对数据进行分组呢?这就是按row_number()的顺序除以(按documententid分区的顺序除以DateCreated desc的顺序。分区后的列定义了SQL Server如何对数据进行分组。在每个组中，行将根据列的顺序进行排序。排序之后，查询中将返回每个组中的第一行。

关于TOP子句的更多信息可以在这里找到。

此解决方案可用于获取每个分区的TOP N最近行(在本例中，WHERE语句中的N为1,partition为doc_id):

SELECT T.doc_id, T.status, T.date_created FROM 
(
    SELECT a.*, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY doc_id ORDER BY date_created DESC) AS rnk FROM doc a
) T
WHERE T.rnk = 1;

SELECT * FROM
DocumentStatusLogs JOIN (
  SELECT DocumentID, MAX(DateCreated) DateCreated
  FROM DocumentStatusLogs
  GROUP BY DocumentID
  ) max_date USING (DocumentID, DateCreated)

什么数据库服务器?这段代码并不是对所有的都有效。

关于你问题的后半部分，我认为应该在一栏中写上“地位”。您可以将DocumentStatusLogs保留为日志，但仍然将最新信息存储在主表中。

顺便说一句，如果你已经在文档表中有DateCreated列，你可以使用它来加入DocumentStatusLogs(只要DateCreated在DocumentStatusLogs中是唯一的)。

编辑:MsSQL不支持USING，因此将其更改为:

ON DocumentStatusLogs.DocumentID = max_date.DocumentID AND DocumentStatusLogs.DateCreated = max_date.DateCreated