Get, Grouped, The Records With Highest Value In A Given Field

Hello all,

Here is an SQL Server 2005 table that lists player scores:





Code Snippet

+--------+--------+----------+
| NAME | POINTS | DATE |
+--------+--------+----------+
| Liz | 7 | 01/04/08 |
| Mark | 20 | 15/03/08 |
| John | 9 | 04/01/08 |
| Liz | 25 | 25/12/07 |
| Liz | 11 | 10/04/08 |
| Mark | 11 | 22/03/08 |
| Patty | 20 | 08/04/08 |
+--------+--------+----------+
I'd like to get, for each player, his/her best performance, including the date. Concretely, my SELECT query should return:





Code Snippet

+--------+--------+----------+
| NAME | POINTS | DATE |
+--------+--------+----------+
| Liz | 25 | 25/12/07 |
| Mark | 20 | 15/03/08 |
| John | 9 | 04/01/08 |
| Patty | 20 | 08/04/08 |
+--------+--------+----------+
does someone have any idea ?

Thx