[thelist] SQL to return one result for duplicate values
Erik Mattheis
gozz at gozz.com
Mon Apr 29 20:32:01 CDT 2002
Yes, perfect (and a lot simpler than everything else I tried that
didn't work!). Thanks much!
At 11:02 AM +1000 4/30/02, Paul Cowan wrote:
> > I would like to query this table and come up with the
>> following result:
>>
>> word_id word_value
>> 1 butter
>> 2 guns
>> 5 gas
>
>SELECT
> word_value, min(word_id) as first_word_id
>FROM
> table_name
>GROUP BY
> word_value
>
>How's that? You don't have to use min(), you can use max(), or some DBMSes
>have first(), or whatever.
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