Select a record with the latest date

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Select a record with the latest date.

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There may be several records with the same date.

There are two steps...
(a) Find the latest date
(b) Select records with that date
With a nested select we can do both of these in one go.

SELECT * FROM totp where wk=
  (SELECT MAX(wk) FROM totp)