Hi.. I know its a couple of weeks that i have problem in datetime.. For example i have this data: 00100 2011-11-20 05:35:00 00100 2011-11-20 13:35:00 00100 2011-11-21 21:35:00 00100 2011-11-22 05:35:00 when I tried this query for testing: Code: SELECT a.EMP_NO, max(a.DTR), min(b.DTR) FROM regular_dtr a LEFT JOIN regular_dtr b ON a.EMP_NO = b.EMP_NO; i have this output: EMP_NO--max_dtr------------------min_dtr 00100----2011-11-22 05:35:00-----2011-11-20 05:35:00 i need result is: EMP_NO--max_dtr------------------min_dtr 00100----2011-11-20 13:35:00-----2011-11-20 05:35:00 00100----2011-11-22 05:35:00-----2011-11-21 21:35:00 I really, don't know what syntax should i need.. I'm sorry if until now, I did not solve this Any help is highly appreciated.. Thank you so much...i hope you would not angry with me...the reason why i post again this problem because now i only have two columns, EMP_NO and DTR(IN and OUT) and i have no right to demand to separate the data of in and out...so that in my part I need to do that but sad to say, I have only few knowledge in mysql..specially in functions.