Incorrect Syntax Left Join subquery with aggregation - sql

Question

I'm trying to run the following query through SQL Server. I keep getting a incorrect syntax error near',' but I can't figure out which comma is incorrect. I'm pretty new to SQL but especially still trying to figure out more complex queries.
SELECT
lastdate.[Date of Record],
billing.[Club Code],
billing.[Club Name],
lastdate.[Member Code with Name],
billing.[Activity Code],
billing.[Category Code],
billing.[Dues Net Amount],
billing.[Dues Gross Amount],
billing.[Member Type Code],
billing.[Member Join Date],
billing.[Member Status Rule Code]
FROM
[dbo].[view_Club_Transactions_0100_(15) Dues_Summary] billing
LEFT JOIN
(MAX(lastdate.[Date of Record]) dor,
lastdate.[Member Code with Name]
FROM
[dbo].[view_Club_Transactions_0100_(15) Dues_Summary] lastdate
GROUP BY
lastdate.[Member Code with Name])
ON
billing.[Member Code with Name]=lastdate.[Member Code with Name]
WHERE
([Member Status Rule Code] = N'ZRESIGN')
AND
([Activity Code] = N'DUES')

Answer 1

Your subquery is missing the SELECT keyword... And an alias too. You also need to align the subquery column alias for the date column with the outer query:
SELECT
lastdate.[Max Date of Record], ---------------> column alias
billing.[Club Code],
...
FROM [dbo].[view_Club_Transactions_0100_(15) Dues_Summary] billing
LEFT JOIN (
SELECT -------------------------------> "SELECT" keyword
MAX([Date of Record]) [Max Date of Record], ---> column alias
[Member Code with Name]
FROM [dbo].[view_Club_Transactions_0100_(15) Dues_Summary]
GROUP BY [Member Code with Name]
) lastdate -------------------------------> subquery alias
ON billing.[Member Code with Name]=lastdate.[Member Code with Name]
WHERE ...
I actually suspect that you can skip the self join and use window functions instead. That could be:
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT
MAX([Date of Record]) OVER(PARTITION BY [Member Code with Name]) [Max Date of Record],
[Club Code],
[Club Name],
[Member Code with Name],
[Activity Code],
[Category Code],
[Dues Net Amount],
[Dues Gross Amount],
[Member Type Code],
[Member Join Date],
[Member Status Rule Code]
FROM [dbo].[view_Club_Transactions_0100_(15) Dues_Summary]
) t
WHERE [Member Status Rule Code] = N'ZRESIGN' AND [Activity Code] = N'DUES'