I know this is a popular problem, but i haven't found an answer to my situation. I have a table (myTable) with three Columns (Column1, Column2, Column3). Column1 entries are unique (with unique identifier), Column2 entries are not unique. I want to do a SELECT DISTINCT on myTable so that Column2 is unique and i get all the other columns. I thought something like this would work
SELECT DISTINCT Column2 as Col2, newid() as Col1, Column3 as Col4 -- I am getting uniqueidentifier for each row as well
This doesn't seem to work however. I still get all the rows because Col1 is unique. since i am using aliases, the usual syntax doesn't work either.
There is always a colour value. But there is not always a value in the MD columns. For example one Product may have values in MD01 MD02 MD03 MD04 MD05 whilst another has values in all MD columns.
My problem is thatI am trying to create a results list based upon selecting distinct values from the colour and md columns
In otherwords i can't have more than only one instance of a word appearing in the recordset list
I'm really struggling with this because there are only 6 colours so if i set distinct purely on 6 colours i only get back 6 rows.
When I try to set disctinct across all the MD columns it seems to ignore it and lists results for example in the table
ProductID Colour MD01 MD02 MD03 MD04 MD05 MD06 MD07 MD08 MD09 MD010 1 red car bike 2 blue bike car train
my select lists results as red car bike blue bike car train
and it is as if it only carries out the distinct command across the row not across all columns for all rows if you see what i mean?
I need to be able to list all data from all rows that have values in the MD columns and colour column but not list the values more than once and not list "empty" (NULL) columns. Does this make sense?
This is the select statement i wrote.
Select DISTINCT md00, md01, md02, md03, md04, md05, md06, md07, md08, md09, md10, colour FROM TEMPLATES WHERE md00 IS NOT NULL or md01 IS NOT NULL or md02 IS NOT NULL or md03 IS NOT NULL or md04 IS NOT NULL or md05 IS NOT NULL or md06 IS NOT NULL or md07 IS NOT NULL or md08 IS NOT NULL or md09 IS NOT NULL or md10 IS NOT NULL
But it returns empty columns and it returns every instance of the same word so in other words the distinct command doesn't seem to be working at all?
I don't know if this is because of my asp code I am trying to list results with the rescordset?
<% While ((Repeat1__numRows <> 0) AND (NOT template_rs.EOF)) %>
I have one more problem. How can I also in addition to being able to list all distinct results list only results for a specific letter
for example
Select DISTINCT md00, md01, md02, md03, md04, md05, md06, md07, md08, md09, md10, colour FROM TEMPLATES WHERE md00 IS NOT NULL or md01 IS NOT NULL or md02 IS NOT NULL or md03 IS NOT NULL or md04 IS NOT NULL or md05 IS NOT NULL or md06 IS NOT NULL or md07 IS NOT NULL or md08 IS NOT NULL or md09 IS NOT NULL or md10 IS NOT NULL WHERE FIRST LETTER ='A'?
I am so far out of my depth here guys I am hoping that someone who has real knowledge of SQL can help me with this statement. I've been pulling my hair out for days now and getting just more and more frustrated listing the same results :(
I am attempting to run the following select statement joining multiple tables but in the end result I would like only Distinct/Unique values to be returned in the invlod.lodnum column.
[select pw.schbat, adrmst.adrnam, adrmst.adrln1, adrmst.adrcty, adrmst.adrstc, adrmst.adrpsz, invlod.lodnum, shipment.host_ext_id, shipment_line.ordnum, car_move.car_move_id from aremst join locmst on (aremst.arecod = locmst.arecod) and (aremst.wh_id = locmst.wh_id)
Been trying to come up with a query to filter-down my sample set intodistinct records. For instance, lets say column1 is a sample set,column2 is the parameter, and column3 is a name and column4 is a type(lets also say there is a fifth column (id) that is an id). What Ineed is one record per type per sample only if type is given, if not,then return that record as well.I've used a subquery to get as close to the desired query is aspossible:select * from table1where id in (select min(id) from table1where column1="A"group by column1, column2)Here's an example of all data for sample "A":1 2 3 4----------A 1 X PA 1 Y PA 1 Z PA 2 WA 3 WA 4 T PA 5 U PA 6 V PA 7 TA 7 UA 7 VI want output :1 2 3-------A 1 X PA 2 WA 3 WA 4 T PA 5 U PA 6 V PA 7 TA 7 UA 7 VExcept the above query will exclude the last two records becausecolumn3 is not 'grouped by'.Basically I need to reduce any 'range' of records per sample (columna) where column4 is not null (ie = 'P'), to only one record andkeeping all others. Thanks in advance:-B
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.
I have a table 'wRelated' with the following columns
[related_id] [int] [channel_id] [int] [mui] [varchar] [price_group_id] [type_id] [int] [related_mui] [varchar] (100) [date_started] [smalldatetime] [date_ended] [smalldatetime] [date_entered] [datetime] [deleted] [tinyint], [rank] [int] data in column [mui] is repeated as the table has more than one entries for the same [mui], The requirement is to select the distinct[mui] but value in all the other columns for the same mui should be select in the next row with null for the same [mui] The recordset expected should be something like this.
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.
I have a SQL Query issue you can find in SQL Fiddle
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My query was like this
For Insert Insert into Employee values('aa', 'T', 'qqq') Insert into Employee values('aa' , 'F' , 'qqq') Insert into Employee values('bb', 'F' , 'eee') Insert into Employee values('cc' , 'T' , 'rrr') Insert into Employee values('cc' , 'pp' , 'aaa') Insert into Employee values('cc' , 'Zz' , 'bab') Insert into Employee values('cc' , 'ZZ' , 'bac') For select select col1,MAX(col2) as Col2,Max(Col3) as Col3 from Employee group by Col1
Ok, so I need to count the Distinct records from column 1 in which there is not a true value in any of the records for that distinct column 1 number. Here is a short example of my records:dbo_dbWafer_Slicing
dbo_dbWafer_Slicing
WaferID SawDate SawRunNumber Pass
03-157.05 1/8/2008 9:54:00 AM 03-157 0
03-157.03 1/8/2008 9:53:00 AM 03-157 -1
03-157.04 1/8/2008 9:53:00 AM 03-157 0
03-157.02 1/8/2008 9:52:00 AM 03-157 -1
03-157.01 1/8/2008 9:50:00 AM 03-157 -1
03-165.06 1/4/2008 10:46:00 AM 03-165 0
03-165.07 1/4/2008 10:46:00 AM 03-165 0
03-165.04 1/4/2008 10:45:00 AM 03-165 0
03-165.05 1/4/2008 10:45:00 AM 03-165 0
03-165.02 1/4/2008 10:44:00 AM 03-165 0
03-165.03 1/4/2008 10:44:00 AM 03-165 0
03-165.01 1/4/2008 10:43:00 AM 03-165 0
So, how many Distinct SawRunNumbers had no passing wafers? In trying to do this I've come up with:"SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT SawRunNumber) AS BouleCount FROM dbWafer_Slicing WHERE (SawDate >= @MinDate) AND (SawDate <= @MaxDate) AND (Pass = 1) HAVING (COUNT(DISTINCT WaferID) > 0)" but that doenst work. It still counts records where pass = 0 for distinct SawRunNumbers even if one record within that SawRunNumber is passing. From the above sample data I should get a result of 1 not 2 or 3. Can I do this with this set of data? I'm using SQL Server 2005 EE.Thanks for your help.
OK I have a Forum on my website make up of 3 tablesTopisThreadsMessageI show a list of the 10 most recent Changed Threads. My Problem is that my Subject field is in the messages Table, IF I link Threads to Messages then try to use Select Disticnt I get mutliple Subject fields as the messsges are not unique (obvisally) So I want to get the top 10 Threads by postdate and link to the Messages table to get the Subject headerAny help? Or questions to explain it better?
Hello Everyone Hopefully someone can help me create a SQL statement for this. I need the ff: fields Prov_ID, Record_ID, PROV_NAme, LOC_city, LOC_Zip_CODE, Specialty Let say I have a table. Prov_ID, Record_ID, PROV_NAme, LOC_city, LOC_Zip_CODE. Specialty1000 999 Mike James Plano 75023 Internal Medicine1000 998 Mike James Allen 75021 Internal Medicine3333 700 John Smith Arlington 70081 Dermatologist3333 701 John Smith Dallas 72002 Dermatologist2222 630 Terry Walker Frisco 75001 Optalmologist2222 632 Terry Walker Dallas 76023 Optalmologist4444 454 Tim Johnson San Anontio 72500 Internal Medicine 4444 464 Tim Johnson Frisco 72660 Internal Medicine I want to select only "one" instance of the provider it doesnt matter what is selected either the first address or the second address. It should show Prov_ID, Record_ID, PROV_NAme, LOC_city, LOC_Zip_CODE. Specialty1000 999 Mike James Plano 75023 Internal Medicine3333 700 John Smith Arlington 70081 Dermatologist2222 632 Terry Walker Dallas 76023 Optalmologist4444 464 Tim Johnson Frisco 72660 Internal Medicine And yes, the table is not Normalized..Is there anyway I could get away with it without having to normalize? Thanks Lorenz
Is their a way to select all items from a table that are not distinct? Meaning, I want to know which items in a column occur more than once. Example: Suppose we have a table with student names, ss# and address. I want to display only records where their is more than one studen with the same name. So for example their could be ten people with the name of "Mike" in a class?
I have a table myTable (ID, Year, Name, Note)data in this table:ID Year Name Note 1 2008 Petter hdjhs2 2008 Nute jfdkfd3 2007 Suna dkfdkf4 2007 Para jfdfjd5 2009 Ute dfdlkf Please help me to Select DISTINCT [Year]]ex:1 2008 Petter hdfdfd3 2007 Suna fdkfdk5 2009 Ute fkdfkdfd Thank!
Hi! I have 4 tables and they have a common column (eg. regionid). These 4 tables have data overlapping with the others. Some data exist in a table but not on the others. What I want to do is to do a select that will display all distinct regionid from these tables. It should be total of all the tables but will suppress any duplicates with the others.
Note that UNION is working but I can't use that. Why ? because UNION is not supported or maybe not working properly with RDB database. I'm doing an appliaction for heterogenous datasource.
Any tips, hints or info will be appreciated. thanks in advance.
SELECT DISTINCT tb2.column20 tb2.column20, tb1.column10, tb2.column21, tb2.column22, tb3.column30 FROM table1 tb1, table2 tb2, table3 tb3 WHERE tb1.column11 = 'P' AND tb2.column23 = 'P' AND tb1.column12 = tb2.column24 AND tb2.column25 = tb3.column31 ORDER BY tb2.column20
Its supposed to return only the distinct entries in tb2.column20
Can you have "Select Distinct" in Union Query,because that is what I am trying to do and this is the error message I get.
"The text, ntext, or image data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT."
I would need to do that because i have duplicate records,because these records are getting written into the db when templates are generated and sometimes if they double click it generates two and writes that many results as well, so that is why I was thinking that select distinct would solve my problem.
Thanks for your help
This is the query in question:
SELECT Distinct 'O' AS Origin, a.RecordID, a.RelocateID, a.SupplierID, a.DateIn, a.DateOut, a.NoOfDays, a.AgreeAmt, a.PaymentMethod, a.AccomType, a.Reason, a.InvRecvd, a.RelocateeTempAccomTS, a.BedConfiguration, a.NumberOfPax, a.AdditionalItems, a.Currency, a.TotalAmount, a.EnteredBy, a.LastModifiedBy, a.ReferenceNumber, a.Location, a.Comments, a.ArrivalTime, a.PONumber,CommissionRate, ISNULL ((SELECT TOP 1 ExchangeRateToUSD FROM luCurrencyExchangeRates c WHERE a.Currency = c.CurrencyID AND a.DateIn >= c.ActiveDate), 1.0) AS ForeignExchangeRate, ISNULL ((SELECT TOP 1 ExchangeRateToUSD FROM luCurrencyExchangeRates c WHERE 'AUD' = c.CurrencyID AND a.DateIn >= c.ActiveDate), 1.0) AS AUDExchangeRate, a.WhenConfirmed, e.RequestID AS RequestID, e.DocumentID AS DocRequestID, e.RequestWhen AS RequestWhen, e.WhereClause AS WhereClause, dbo.luDecisionMaker.DecisionMakerName AS DecisionMadeBy, dbo.viewZYesno.Description AS CommissionableDesc FROM dbo.RelocateeTempAccom a LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.luDecisionMaker ON a.DecisionMaker = dbo.luDecisionMaker.DecisionMakerID LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.viewZYesno ON a.Commissionable = dbo.viewZYesno.[Value] LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.docRequests e ON '{RelocateeTempAccom.RecordID}=' + CONVERT(VARCHAR a.RecordID) = e.WhereClause WHERE (ISNULL(a.Cancelled, 0) = 0)
UNION ALL
SELECT Distinct 'D' AS Origin, RecordID, RelocateID, DTASupplierID AS SupplierID, DTADateIn AS DateIn, DTADateOut AS DateOut, DTANoOfDays AS NoOfDays, DTAAgreeAmt AS AgreeAmt, DTAPaymentMethod AS PaymentMethod, DTAAccomType AS AccomType, Reason, InvRecvd, RelocateeDTATS AS RelocateeTempAccomTS, BedConfiguration, NumberOfPax, AdditionalItems, Currency, DailyTotal AS TotalAmount, EnteredBy, LastModifiedBy, ReferenceNumber, Location, Comments, ArrivalTime, PONumber,CommissionRate, ISNULL ((SELECT TOP 1 ExchangeRateToUSD FROM luCurrencyExchangeRates d WHERE b.Currency = d .CurrencyID AND b.DTADateIn >= d .ActiveDate), 1.0) AS ForeignExchangeRate, ISNULL ((SELECT TOP 1 ExchangeRateToUSD FROM luCurrencyExchangeRates d WHERE 'AUD' = d .CurrencyID AND b.DTADateIn >= d .ActiveDate), 1.0) AS AUDExchangeRate, WhenConfirmed, e.RequestID AS RequestID, e.DocumentID AS DocRequestID, e.RequestWhen AS RequestWhen, e.WhereClause AS WhereClause, dbo.luDecisionMaker.DecisionMakerName AS DecisionMadeBy, dbo.viewZYesno.Description AS CommissionableDesc FROM dbo.RelocateeDTA b LEFT JOIN dbo.luDecisionMaker ON b.DecisionMaker = dbo.luDecisionMaker.DecisionMakerID LEFT JOIN dbo.viewZYesno ON b.Commissionable = dbo.viewZYesno.[Value] LEFT OUTER JOIN dbo.docRequests e ON '{RelocateeDTA.RecordID}=' + CONVERT(VARCHAR, b.RecordID) = e.WhereClause WHERE ISNULL(Cancelled, 0) = 0
I need some help getting unique records from a query, I have a large amount of nested selects and i want to only display distinct records, I have a unique identifier (party ID) but the code was written by someone else (who is on holiday!) and i need to work out where to insert the disctinct select (if at all? - open to a better way?) this query should pull back records and then the results are pasted in to excel, however would a DTS solve the issue with duplicates??
Any help more than appreciated!
Heres the code...
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.negative_surplus_report
AS
SELECT dbo.Cubit_Override_ID.UserName AS [User], dbo.Cubit_Customers.RecordDateTime AS Date,
dbo.Cubit_Customers.Customer_Status AS [Customer Status], dbo.Cubit_Customers.Call_Prompted_By AS [Call Prompted By],
dbo.Cubit_Outcomes.Outcome_Description AS [Outcome], ISNULL(dbo.Cubit_EPH.Total_Balance, 0) AS [Egg Debt], ISNULL(dbo.Cubit_Debt.Income_Total,
0) AS Income, ISNULL
((SELECT SUM(Balance)
FROM Cubit_Debt_Card INNER JOIN
Cubit_Debt ON Cubit_Debt_Card.Debt_ID = Cubit_Debt.Debt_ID
WHERE Cubit_Debt.Cust_ID = Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID), 0) AS [External Card Debt], ISNULL
((SELECT SUM(Balance)
FROM Cubit_Debt_Loan INNER JOIN
Cubit_Debt ON Cubit_Debt_Loan.Debt_ID = Cubit_Debt.Debt_ID
WHERE Cubit_Debt.Cust_ID = Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID), 0) AS [External Loan Debt], ISNULL(dbo.Cubit_Spending.Out_Mortgage, 0)
AS [Mortgage Payment], ISNULL(dbo.Cubit_Spending.Out_Rent, 0) AS [Rent Payment], ISNULL(dbo.Cubit_Debt.Mortgage_Balance, 0)
AS [Mortgage Balance], ISNULL(dbo.Cubit_Debt.Property_Value, 0) AS Property, ISNULL(dbo.Cubit_Customers.Party_ID, '') AS [Party ID],
ISNULL(dbo.Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID, '') AS [Cubit ID], ISNULL(dbo.Cubit_Spending.Out_Total, 0) AS Outgoings,
ISNULL(dbo.Cubit_EPH.Total_Monthly_Pmt, 0) AS [Egg Payments], ISNULL
((SELECT SUM(Monthly_Pmt)
FROM Cubit_Debt_Card INNER JOIN
Cubit_Debt ON Cubit_Debt_Card.Debt_ID = Cubit_Debt.Debt_ID
WHERE Cubit_Debt.Cust_ID = Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID), 0) AS [External Card Paymements], ISNULL
((SELECT SUM(Monthly_Pmt)
FROM Cubit_Debt_Loan INNER JOIN
Cubit_Debt ON Cubit_Debt_Loan.Debt_ID = Cubit_Debt.Debt_ID
WHERE Cubit_Debt.Cust_ID = Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID), 0) AS [External Loan Payments], dbo.Cubit_Debt.Income_Total -
(SELECT SUM(Monthly_Pmt)
FROM Cubit_Debt_Card INNER JOIN
Cubit_Debt ON Cubit_Debt_Card.Debt_ID = Cubit_Debt.Debt_ID
WHERE Cubit_Debt.Cust_ID = Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID) -
(SELECT SUM(Monthly_Pmt)
FROM Cubit_Debt_Loan INNER JOIN
Cubit_Debt ON Cubit_Debt_Loan.Debt_ID = Cubit_Debt.Debt_ID
WHERE Cubit_Debt.Cust_ID = Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID) - dbo.Cubit_Spending.Out_Total - dbo.Cubit_EPH.Total_Monthly_Pmt AS Surplus,
dbo.Cubit_Override_ID.Mandate_Level
FROM dbo.Cubit_Customers INNER JOIN
dbo.Cubit_Managers ON dbo.Cubit_Customers.Manager_ID = dbo.Cubit_Managers.Manager_ID INNER JOIN
dbo.Cubit_Areas ON dbo.Cubit_Managers.Area_ID = dbo.Cubit_Areas.Area_ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.Cubit_EPH ON dbo.Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID = dbo.Cubit_EPH.Cust_ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.Cubit_Spending ON dbo.Cubit_Spending.Cust_ID = dbo.Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID INNER JOIN
dbo.Cubit_Outcomes ON dbo.Cubit_Customers.Outcome_ID = dbo.Cubit_Outcomes.Outcome_ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.Cubit_Additional_MI_Data ON dbo.Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID = dbo.Cubit_Additional_MI_Data.Cubit_Cust_ID INNER JOIN
dbo.Cubit_Override_ID ON dbo.Cubit_Customers.Input_By_NTID = dbo.Cubit_Override_ID.NT_ID LEFT OUTER JOIN
dbo.Cubit_Debt ON dbo.Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID = dbo.Cubit_Debt.Cust_ID
WHERE (dbo.Cubit_Areas.Area_ID IN (2, 3, 4, 11, 12)) AND (dbo.Cubit_Customers.Non_Relevant_Call = 0) AND (dbo.Cubit_Customers.Spending_Assessed = 1)
AND (dbo.Cubit_Customers.Debt_Assessed = 1) AND (dbo.Cubit_Debt.Income_Total > 0) AND (dbo.Cubit_EPH.Total_Monthly_Pmt < 999999) AND
(dbo.Cubit_Debt.Income_Total -
(SELECT SUM(Monthly_Pmt)
FROM Cubit_Debt_Card INNER JOIN
Cubit_Debt ON Cubit_Debt_Card.Debt_ID = Cubit_Debt.Debt_ID
WHERE Cubit_Debt.Cust_ID = Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID) -
(SELECT SUM(Monthly_Pmt)
FROM Cubit_Debt_Loan INNER JOIN
Cubit_Debt ON Cubit_Debt_Loan.Debt_ID = Cubit_Debt.Debt_ID
WHERE Cubit_Debt.Cust_ID = Cubit_Customers.Cubit_Cust_ID) - dbo.Cubit_Spending.Out_Total - dbo.Cubit_EPH.Total_Monthly_Pmt < 0) AND
SELECT DISTINCT [DATE_CONVERSION_TABLE_NEW].MONTH, DAY([DATE_CONVERSION_TABLE_NEW].[DISBURSEMENT DATE]) AS DayofMonth, DAT01.[_@550] AS LoanType, DAT01.[_@051] AS Branch, DAT01.[_@TP] AS ProdTypeDescr, SMT_Branches.[BranchTranType] AS TranType, --SMT_Branches.[AUCode] AS AuCode, COUNT(*) AS Totals FROM DAT01 INNER JOIN [DATE_CONVERSION_TABLE_NEW] --ON DAT01.[_@040] = [DATE_CONVERSION_TABLE_NEW].[DISBURSEMENT DATE] ON DAT01.[_@040] = [_@040] INNER JOIN SMT_BRANCHES ON SMT_Branches.[BranchTranType] = SMT_BRANCHES.[BranchTranType] WHERE DAT01.[_@040] Between '06/01/2006' And '06/30/2006' And SMT_BRANCHES.[BranchTranType] = 'RETAIL' AND DAT01.[_@051] = '540' --And SMT_Branches.[AUCode] = '1882' And DAT01.[_@TP] = '115' And DAT01.[_@550] = '3' GROUP BY DAT01.[_@051], DAT01.[_@550], DAT01.[_@TP], SMT_Branches.[BranchTranType], --SMT_Branches.[AUCode], [DATE_CONVERSION_TABLE_NEW].MONTH, DAY([DATE_CONVERSION_TABLE_NEW].[DISBURSEMENT DATE]) ORDER BY [DATE_CONVERSION_TABLE_NEW].MONTH, DAT01.[_@051], DayofMonth ASC --SMT_Branches.[AUCode] ASC --COMPUTE sum(count(*))
Hi. I am trying to create a view where it will find out the sum of hours for each employee, for each month and year.
SELECT DISTINCT EmpId, SUM(Hours) AS Hours, YEAR(WeekStartDate) AS startyear, MONTH(WeekStartDate) AS startmonth FROM dbo.BankHours_History GROUP BY EmpId, WeekStartDate
I have a select query Select distinct a,b,c,d from xyz I would like to know what the syntax is if I want only a,b,c to be distinct and not d. I tried something like Select (distinct a,b,c),d but getting error what is the correct query to do this. Please help.
I don't know what the correct syntax is to do what I want with the DISTINCTfunction (if it's actually possible).I have a query which displays a variety of fields from a variety of tables(pretty standard).However, I only want to show records where the contents of one particularcolumn in the query are unique - I do not want to perform the function onthe entire record because other fields in the records may be duplicated foras reason.
I have a query that selects profile data for members, if I don€™t do a select distinct it gives me a lot of correct values, (unique values) of members i.e. only one record per member, but every now and then I get duplicate values for one member, multiple times.
Why does this occure?
I know SELECT DISTINCT is there to remove duplicates, but without SELECT DISTINCT why would this €œmistake€? happen?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I.e.
2 | 3 | John | Slack | Philips |5 1 | 2 | Jason | Limrick | Jones | 3 1 | 2 | Jason | Limrick | Jones | 3 1 | 2 | Jason | Limrick | Jones | 3 1 | 2 | Jason | Limrick | Jones | 3 1 | 2 | Jason | Limrick | Jones | 3 2 | 3 | Jane | John | Parker |4
Why would it create duplicate records if the values are the same?
select distinct ISNULL (a.account,'') as "Account", ISNULL (c.address1,'') as "Address", ISNULL (c.city,'') as "City", ISNULL (c.state,'') as "State", ISNULL (c.postalcode,'') as "Zip Code", ISNULL (a.mainphone,'') as "Phone", a.userfield1 as "GID", s.division from sysdba.account as a join sysdba.address as c on a.addressid = c.addressid join sysdba.staff as s on a.accountid = s.accountid where a.type like '%client%' and a.userfield1 is not null and (s.division like '%HR%' or s.division like '%db%') and s.type = 'client'
So what happens now is that if an account is listed in two division I get two distinct rows returned, but each with the same GID column. When I try to push this to a new database that has GID as the primary key I get duplicate on that column and it errors out.
I need to be able to get only a single row if the division is both HR and db. how to tackle this problem.
I have this query only thing wrong with it is that I dont know how to only select different values from my expenseCode column that looks like below....I dont want to select "Employee Only Meals" as many times as it appears in the table just once do i want to select it....any help with how i should write my query would be great! thanks!
Administrative contract work Cell phone Courier/Shipping Employee only Meals Employee only Meals Employee only Meals Employee only Meals Employee only Meals Employee trans/parking Health Club Memberships Home Office Expenses IT equipment-non capitalizable
I may be new at this but I can't find any explanation why SELECT DISTINCT(Stno), Grade shows distinct occurrences for each Stno-Grade combination rather than just distinct occurences of Stno. What is the solution?