Create new table from rows in another table, where distinct column A value is the earliest of group

[jburbano]

I have a table similar to below:

A | B | C | D
Apple | Something | Else | Jan 1, 2020
Banana | Something | Else | Jan 3, 2020
Apple | Something | Else | Dec 28, 2019
Pear | Something | Else | Dec 29, 2019
Apple | Something | Else | Jan 7, 2020
Banana | Something | Else | Jan 24, 2020
Apple | Something | Else | Dec 21, 2019
Pineapple | Something | Else | Dec 15, 2019
Apple | Something | Else | Jan 13, 2020
Apple | Something | Else | Jan 21, 2020

I have already sorted out by column A and then column "D"

A | B | C | D
Apple | Something | Else | Dec 21, 2019
Apple | Something | Else | Dec 28, 2019
Apple | Something | Else | Jan 1, 2020
Apple | Something | Else | Jan 7, 2020
Apple | Something | Else | Jan 13, 2020
Apple | Something | Else | Jan 21, 2020
Banana | Something | Else | Jan 3, 2020
Banana | Something | Else | Jan 24, 2020
Pear | Something | Else | Dec 29, 2019
Pineapple | Something | Else | Dec 15, 2019

But if I do a Table.Distinct for column A hoping it removed the second and after row, having been placed in order by date already too, it does not do that, but returns:

A | B | C | D
Apple | Something | Else | Jan 7, 2020
Banana | Something | Else | Jan 24, 2020
Pear | Something | Else | Dec 29, 2019
Pineapple | Something | Else | Dec 15, 2019

Not sure how else to accomplish this...

[jburbano · Accepted solution]

Was able to get what I needed by creating new table from the source table with only the necessary columns; I need the original table for other visuals.  Then I selected the two columns that mattered and removed duplicates that way, that seemed to get the topmost value in the sorted by Date column.  

[amitchandak]

I am not sure of logic of 7 jan for Apple. But if it 21 jan

The try

New table = Summarize(Table,Table[A],Table[B],Table[C],"D",max(Table[D]))

Hope this will help.

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