难道一个qualified子句不是既简单又最好吗?

select userid, my_date, ...
from users
qualify rank() over (partition by userid order by my_date desc) = 1

对于上下文，在Teradata这里一个像样的大小测试运行在17秒与这个合格版本和在23秒与“内联视图”/Aldridge解决方案#1。

select VALUE from TABLE1 where TIME = 
   (select max(TIME) from TABLE1 where DATE= 
   (select max(DATE) from TABLE1 where CRITERIA=CRITERIA))

select   UserId,max(Date) over (partition by UserId) value from users;

使用ROW_NUMBER()为每个UserId按递减日期分配唯一的排名，然后为每个UserId过滤到第一行(即ROW_NUMBER = 1)。

SELECT UserId, Value, Date
FROM (SELECT UserId, Value, Date,
        ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY UserId ORDER BY Date DESC) rn
      FROM users) u
WHERE rn = 1;

我认为你应该对之前的查询进行修改:

SELECT UserId, Value FROM Users U1 WHERE 
Date = ( SELECT MAX(Date)    FROM Users where UserId = U1.UserId)

在Oracle 12c+中，你可以使用Top n查询和分析函数排名来实现这一点，而且不需要子查询:

select *
from your_table
order by rank() over (partition by user_id order by my_date desc)
fetch first 1 row with ties;

上面的代码返回每个用户my_date最大的所有行。

如果你只想要一个最大日期的行，那么用row_number替换秩:

select *
from your_table
order by row_number() over (partition by user_id order by my_date desc)
fetch first 1 row with ties;