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I try to search my data and sort the result by importance.

I'm using a MS Access database and my data (table1) looks like this:


Code:

ID NAME TEXT
1 Apples Good red apples
2 Bananas Fine yellow bananas
3 Yellow apples Great yellow apples


I want to search the data and get a result where the column "NAME" is more important than "TEXT". My SQL looks like this:


Code:

SELECT id,name,text,1 AS searchorder FROM table1 WHERE name LIKE '*yellow*'
UNION
SELECT id,name,text,2 AS searchorder FROM table1 WHERE text LIKE '*yellow*'
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Code:

ID NAME TEXT SEARCHORDER
3 Yellow apples Great yellow apples 1
2 Bananas Fine yellow bananas 2
3 Yellow apples Great yellow apples 2


So far so good - the order by importance works - but I do not get unique columns because of the searchorder column.

Can I fix my SQL so I get unique columns where the last line of "Yellow apples" does not appear or am I lost in space?

Best regards,
Peter from Denmark

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