Each GROUP BY expression must contain at least one column that is not an outer reference

To start with you can’t do this:

having rid!=MAX(rid)

The HAVING clause can only contain things which are attributes of the aggregate groups.

In addition, 1, 2, 3 is not valid in GROUP BY in SQL Server – I think that’s only valid in ORDER BY.

Can you explain why this isn’t what you are looking for:

select 
LEFT(SUBSTRING(batchinfo.datapath, PATINDEX('%[0-9][0-9][0-9]%', batchinfo.datapath), 8000), PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', SUBSTRING(batchinfo.datapath, PATINDEX('%[0-9][0-9][0-9]%', batchinfo.datapath), 8000))-1),
qvalues.name,
qvalues.compound,
MAX(qvalues.rid)
 from batchinfo join qvalues on batchinfo.rowid=qvalues.rowid
where LEN(datapath)>4
group by LEFT(SUBSTRING(batchinfo.datapath, PATINDEX('%[0-9][0-9][0-9]%', batchinfo.datapath), 8000), PATINDEX('%[^0-9]%', SUBSTRING(batchinfo.datapath, PATINDEX('%[0-9][0-9][0-9]%', batchinfo.datapath), 8000))-1),
qvalues.name,
qvalues.compound

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