MS SQL Server :: How Can I Use SELECT DISTINCT And Maintain The Original Order

How To Select Data From Excel Table By Original Column Order?

Feb 21, 2007

Hello, everyone:

I have an Excel table that has columns like,

Vendoe_Name
Level
Address
Email
Phone

I use the statemen

SELECT * FROM OPENDATASOURCE('Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0',
'Data Source=C: est.xls;Extended Properties=Excel 8.0')...[Sheet1$]

and got output by column order,

Address
Email
Level
Phone
Vendoe_Name

How to make output by original column order like,

Vendoe_Name
Level
Address
Email
Phone

Any help will appreciated. Thanks

ZYT

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May 6, 2008

Hi
I have a query which returns some rows.. what happens if i use a select distinct instead of a select.. this is my sproc
DECLARE @Counter TABLE(
PlanId int,
FundId int,
ClientFundName varchar(110),
DisplayOrder int IDENTITY(1,1),
IsDefault bit,
IsPortfolioFundOnly bit
)
INSERT INTO @Counter
(
PlanId,
FundId,
ClientFundName,
IsDefault,
IsPortfolioFundOnly
)
SELECT
5923,
f.FundId,
d.FundName,
CASE WHEN d.FundDefault IS NULL THEN 0 ELSE 1 END,
CASE WHEN Lower(p.FundType) = 'modfundonly' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
FROM
PlanDetail d
INNER JOIN Statements..Fund f
ON d.CUSIP = f.CUSIP
OR
d.Ticker = f.Ticker
OR
d.Ticker = f.ClientFundId
OR
d.CUSIP = f.ClientFundId
-- Do an internal join on the PlanDetail table to get the value of the FundType to derive whether
--fund can only be chosen as part of a portfolio.
LEFT JOIN PlanDetail p
ON d.FundName = p.FundName
AND
d.PortfolioName = p.PortfolioName
WHERE
d.PlanNumber IS NOT NULL
AND
p.PortFundPercent IS NULL
GROUP BY
f.FundId,
d.FundName,
d.FundDefault,
--d.PlanNumber,
--d.Cusip,
-- d.Ticker,
--d.RowNumber,
p.FundType

ORDER BY
Min(d.PlanNumber),
Min(d.RowNumber)

any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Karen

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Oct 6, 2005

I get the "ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified.

SELECT DISTINCT
pdm.Account,
pdm.Customer
FROM
dbo.Demands pdm LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.Tickets rct ON pdm.Account = rct.Account
WHERE
pdm.Code IN (66, 51)
ORDER BY
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Is there any way to make the ORDER BY work in this case?

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Nov 3, 2003

I have the following records,
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2003/10/26 3
2003/10/26 1
2003/10/27 3
2003/10/28 2
2003/10/29 4

I want to get the most earlier date distinct records.
I try to use "SELECT DISTINCT MyID from Table;"
I expect to get Myid: 2,3,1,4
But the computer returns Myid:1,2,3,4

Is there a way to get the records using
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Appreciate help......

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Feb 14, 2008

This query demonstrates a problem I have run across:

USE AdventureWorks

GO

-- This query works fine.

SELECT DISTINCT FirstName AS Name1 FROM Person.Contact ORDER BY FirstName

GO

-- This query also works fine.

SELECT ISNULL(FirstName, '') AS Name1 FROM Person.Contact ORDER BY FirstName

GO

-- This query returns error 145

SELECT DISTINCT ISNULL(FirstName, '') AS Name1 FROM Person.Contact ORDER BY FirstName

GO

The last query returns the error "ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified".
It will work if I change ORDER BY to use "Name1" instead of "FirstName", but in the situation I have at hand, the query is generated by third-party software and I don't have the ability to change it.
Can anyone explain why what's going on here? Oddly, this same query will work if I run it against SQL Server 2000.

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Hi,
I wonder if its possible to perform a ORDER BY clause in an SELECT DISTINCT sql query whereby the AS SINGLECOLUMN is used. At present I am recieving error: ORDER BY items must appear in the select list if SELECT DISTINCT is specified. My guess is that I cant perform the Order By clauses because it cant find the columns individually. It is essentail I get this to work somehow...
Can anyone help? Thanks in advance
Gemma

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Feb 9, 2008

Hello

I would appreciate If any one could help me in this matter.

problem is : how to maintain perpetual inventory transaction table order in batch mode updation ?.

I have designed a table to hold all inventory transactions. The table order is perfectly maintained in online system of updation. But if I go with batch updation then the order of the transaction is collapsing. For example consider the following table design. (note I used auto number to maintain the order).

version used : SQL Server 2000 with service pack updates.

LINEID TRANS_TYPE TRANS_ID TRAN_DATE STOCKNO QUANTITY RATE

1 Receipts 2 01/01/2000 xxxxx1 2 2.0
2. Issue 1 01/01/2000 yyyyy1 1
3 Receipts 3 02/01/2000 xxxxx2 4 3.0
4 Issue 2 02/01/2000 yyyyy2 1

the above is well in online mode. But in batch mode if i update issue 2 before receipts 3 then i am getting order like below

1 Receipts 2 01/01/2000 xxxxx1 2 2.0
2. Issue 1 01/01/2000 yyyyy1 1
3 Issue 2 02/01/2000 yyyyy2 1
4 Receipts 3 02/01/2000 xxxxx2 4 3.0

ofcourse if the order collapse means costing can not be accurate. so please any one could help me to solve this problem. because many software packages are not posting in sequence if we choose in batch mode.

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Sep 10, 2004

Hello, everyone:

I have a table like:

ColName
b
b
b
d
d
d
a
a
c
c
c

I use DISTINCT to filter duplicated row. I want to get the return by original order like:
b
d
a
c

However, SQL Server re-order it if using DISTINCT and return like:
a
b
c
d

Can any one have the idea to handle that? Thanks

ZYT

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Jul 6, 2007

Hi, I have the following script segment which is failing:

CREATE TABLE #LatLong (Latitude DECIMAL, Longitude DECIMAL, PRIMARY KEY (Latitude, Longitude))

INSERT INTO #LatLong SELECT DISTINCT Latitude, Longitude FROM RGCcache

When I run it I get the following error: "Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK__#LatLong__________7CE3D9D4'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.#LatLong'."

Im not sure how this is failing as when I try creating another table with 2 decimal columns and repeated values, select distinct only returns distinct pairs of values.

The failure may be related to the fact that RGCcache has about 10 million rows, but I can't see why.

Any ideas?

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Mar 28, 2007

It gives me this error:
ORDER BY clause (TimeStamp) conflicts with Distinct

The sql statement is:

sql Code:

Original
- sql Code

SELECT DISTINCT division from table order by Stamp DESC

SELECT DISTINCT division FROM TABLE ORDER BY Stamp DESC

I've tried:

sql Code:

Original
- sql Code

SELECT DISTINCT division, Stamp FROM table ORDER BY Stamp DESC

SELECT DISTINCT division, Stamp FROM TABLE ORDER BY Stamp DESC

But this produces duplicate rows, which in this specific case is unacceptable.

Is there any way I can acheive what I want?
Stamp is a TimeStamp if you couldn't figure it out. I just want the last one entered, but all the last ones entered per division. . .

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Feb 23, 2004

I have a strange situation (I think). Within a view (which explains why I use the top 100% --> to use an order by) I have this query:

select TOP 100 PERCENT *
from tbOfferDetails
where ofd_id = ofd_parent and ofd_fk_off_id = 100

This gives me the following results:
ofd_fk_off_id off_fk_class_id
100 2753
100 2753
100 2071
100 2753

Now I change the query to:

select distinct ofd_fk_off_id, ofd_fk_class_id from
(select TOP 100 PERCENT *
from tbOfferDetails
where ofd_id = ofd_parent and ofd_fk_off_id = 100
order by ofd_sequence ASC ) as tbOffers

This gives me the following results:
ofd_fk_off_id off_fk_class_id
100 2071
100 2753

In the execution plan, it says that a distinct order by is used on off_fk_class_id. My question is: why is this done? I want only a distinct and not an order by. So is there a way to change this (default?) behaviour.

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when I use smalldatefield I am getting 2014-08-09 11:13:00 I should have got 2014-08-09 11:13:03

Why the 03 is trimming in smalldatefield.

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Feb 19, 2015

I built a query that brings in 'Discounts' (bolded) to the Order detail by using the bolded syntax below. I started off by running the query without the bolded lines and got exactly what I was looking for but without the ‘Discount’ column. When I tried to add the ‘Discount’ into the query, it duplicated several order lines. Although total ‘Discount’ column ties out to the total amount expected in that column, ‘Total Charges’ are now several times higher than before.

For example, I get 75 records when I run without the bolded syntax and I get several hundred results back when adding back in the bolded syntax when i should still be getting 75 records, just with an additional column ‘PTL Discount’ subtotaled.My question is, how to I introduce a new select or join from another table without duplicating the original data?

select
first_stop.actual_departure ‘Start'
, last_stop.actual_departure 'End'
, last_stop.city_name 'End city'
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Apr 29, 2008

Hello,

I have a stored procedure with dynamic ORDER BY. I would like to use the DISTINCT too. Is it somehow possible?
Thank you

Here is the stored procedure:

SELECT identifier_company + cast(identifier_number as nvarchar(3)) as identifier,
CASE WHEN canceled = 'True' THEN 'canceledPO' ELSE '' END AS style,
staff.staff_name,
purchase.purchase_id,
purchase.traveller_name,
nominal_department.department_name,
purchase.canceled,
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convert(nvarchar(20), purchase.date_raised, 103) as dated,
supplier
FROM purchase INNER JOIN purchase_project ON purchase.purchase_id = purchase_project.purchase_id
INNER JOIN staff ON purchase.raised = staff.staff_id
INNER JOIN nominal_department ON purchase.department = nominal_department.nominal_dep_id
WHERE (raised in (SELECT staff_id FROM staff WHERE department like @FromDepartment) or purchase.raised = @raisedBy)
and purchase_project.project_number like '%' + @Query + '%'
ORDER BY
CASE @SortDir
WHEN 'ASC' THEN
CASE @OrderBy
WHEN 'staff_name' THEN cast(staff_name as nvarchar(100))
WHEN 'traveller_name' THEN cast(traveller_name as nvarchar(100))
WHEN 'department_name' THEN cast(department_name as nvarchar(100))
WHEN 'supplier' THEN cast(supplier as nvarchar(100))
WHEN 'canceled' THEN cast(canceled as nvarchar(10))
END
END
ASC,
CASE @SortDir
WHEN 'DESC' THEN
CASE @OrderBy
WHEN 'staff_name' THEN cast(staff_name as nvarchar(100))
WHEN 'traveller_name' THEN cast(traveller_name as nvarchar(100))
WHEN 'department_name' THEN cast(department_name as nvarchar(100))
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WHEN 'canceled' THEN cast(canceled as nvarchar(10))
END
END
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Jun 28, 2007

OK I am trying the following select statement but I am getting a 'DISTINCT requires ORDER BY to be used' error. I have an ORDER BY in it so I am not sure what I have missed?

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FROM tbl_final_CP INNER JOIN
ContractorAreaRelationship ON tbl_final_CP.Area = ContractorAreaRelationship.AreaNo INNER JOIN
tbl_CPCost ON tbl_final_CP.CP = tbl_CPCost.CP
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Hi,

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I've attached a sample of DB data below.

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5113 15236 200 auths
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(
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[code]...

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11 Place11
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2 Western
3 Northern
4 Southern
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