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Subselect latest value from lookup, releative to event

lassel
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I am trying to correlate a event with a kvstore lookup, but I don't have a common key besides the username. So I want the closest matching value from the kvstore.

In SQL it looks like this:
http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/0d563/1/0

In splunk the 'events' table would be my index and and the 'hello' would be my kvstore collection.

How can I make the equivalent query in Splunk?

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lassel
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A learned the answer myself.

Splunk will search backwards by default, so by using the lookup command with a kvstore, you automatically get the closest matching event.

The equivalent splunk query to above would be:
index=events | lookup user by user OUTPUT message as message

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lassel
Communicator

A learned the answer myself.

Splunk will search backwards by default, so by using the lookup command with a kvstore, you automatically get the closest matching event.

The equivalent splunk query to above would be:
index=events | lookup user by user OUTPUT message as message

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