I have what should be a simple question, but I can't figure out how to do it in DBIx::Class (which I'm using elsewhere in this code, so I need it for this too).

I have a single table, that (for this purpose) contains an ID, a name, and a score (and other data not relevant for this question). I want to get the Result object for the highest score for each name. That's it. So, for the data 

+----+-----------+-------+
| id | name      | score |
+----+-----------+-------+
| 1 | John       |  24   |
| 2 | John       |  60   |
| 3 | Mary       |  4    |
| 4 | John       |  10   |
| 5 | Kate       |  30   |
| 6 | Mary       |  20   |
+---+------------+-------+

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I want to get back rows 2 (John's highest score), 5 (Kate's highest (and only) score), and 6 (Mary's highest score).

That is, the SQL would be something simple like SELECT MAX(score), name FROM scores GROUP BY name; (except that I want to get the Result object, not the actual column values).

How can I accomplish this? The docs are pretty sketchy about grouping in general, and I can't find a good parallel anywhere.

In reply to MAX and GROUP BY in DBIx::Class by Anonymous Monk

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