Showing posts with label understanding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label understanding. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2012

DISTINCT query issue

I'm familiar with MySQL and recently started working with MSSQL.
I have a general understanding of how the DISTINCT command works, but would like to expand on that a bit.

I need to do a DISTINCT query on a record's 'name' column, but i need all of the values for each of those returned records. So, I need the query to only apply the DISTINCT command to the 'name' column, not the other columns of the received records.

Can someone explain a bit how to word this

Many thanks in advance.

EDIT: Upon reflection, I realize now that this request is counter to the way DISTINCT works. D'oh. Move along, nothing to see here. :(

Hi,

As you have wrote at the end of your message, you can not get such a list.

But if you want to get records of having same specific column value, you can run a select and order by over that column also can add a criteria to filter returned data.