Create a SQL query to retrieve most recent records

Aggregate in a subquery derived table and then join to it.

 Select Date, User, Status, Notes 
    from [SOMETABLE]
    inner join 
    (
        Select max(Date) as LatestDate, [User]
        from [SOMETABLE]
        Group by User
    ) SubMax 
    on [SOMETABLE].Date = SubMax.LatestDate
    and [SOMETABLE].User = SubMax.User 

another way, this will scan the table only once instead of twice if you use a subquery

only sql server 2005 and up

select Date, User, Status, Notes 
from (
       select m.*, row_number() over (partition by user order by Date desc) as rn
       from [SOMETABLE] m
     ) m2
where m2.rn = 1;