I'm trying to query the pubs database for last title for each author.
The query returns each title for each author. How can I operate on max
of title?
Here's what I'm trying:
select distinct au_id,max(title_id)as title from titleauthor
group by au_id,title_id
order by au_id
dito
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I have what I thought should be a simple query that's not quite as simple as I thought. Maybe I haven't had enough coffee yet.
Here's the scenario,
Data table looks like this :
COLUMN A is Primary Key
COLUMN B is UserID
COLUMN C is (for example purposes) an int field
A B C
1 1 SOME VALUE
2 1 SOME VALUE
3 1 SOME VALUE
4 2 SOME VALUE
5 2 SOME VALUE
6 2 SOME VALUE
7 3 SOME VALUE
8 3 SOME VALUE
9 3 SOME VALUE
The query that I'm looking for would return all 3 columns but only the first row for each distinct (unique) UserID (Column B)
Hope that all makes sense! ;)
This may be a really simple question, but I always have problems withDistinct queries.In this instance, I have a table of Delivery addresses, some will be exactlythe same EXCEPT for the DeliveryID field, but eitherway I need theDeliveryID so that I can pass it onto the next form.So, I need to run a query that will find only addresses that are uniquewhilst retaining the respective DID for the rows...SELECT DISTINCT DeliveryID, Address, Organisation, Organisation, Town,County, PostCode FROM SOL_Delivery WHERE CustomerID = 15)How do I adjust the following to only 'Distinct' the fields other than theDeliveryID?Thanks!
View 8 Replies View RelatedI need to run a SELECT DISTINCT query acrossmultiple fields, but I need to add another field that is NON-DISTINCTto my record set.Here is my query:SELECT DISTINCT lastname, firstname, middleinitial, address1,address2, city, state, zip, age, genderFROM gpresultsWHERE age>='18' and serviceline not in ('4TH','4E','4W')and financialclass not in ('Z','X') and age not in('1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','0')and (CAST (ADMITDATE AS DATETIME) >= DATEDIFF(day, 60, GETDATE()))ORDER BY zipThis query runs perfect. No problems whatsoever. However, I need toalso include another field called "admitdate" that should be treatedas NON-DISTINCT. How do I add this in to the query?I've tried this but doesn't work:SELECT admitdateFROM (SELECT DISTINCT lastname, firstname, middleinitial, address1,address2, city, state, zip, age, gender from gpresults)WHERE age>='18' and serviceline not in ('4TH','4E','4W')and financialclass not in ('Z','X') and age not in('1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9','0')and (CAST (ADMITDATE AS DATETIME) >= DATEDIFF(day, 60, GETDATE()))ORDER BY zipThis has to be simple but I do not know the syntax to accomplishthis.Thanks
View 2 Replies View RelatedI do an distinct query like this:query = "SELECT DISTINCT name, total = COUNT(*) from products where name LIKE '%" & searchString & "%' GROUP BY name"The query works fine but I need to select one more field called "info" so I just tried this:query = "SELECT DISTINCT name, info, total = COUNT(*) from products where name LIKE '%" & searchString & "%' GROUP BY name"but then I get the error message:"Column 'products.info' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause"I want do group just by "name" and not "info"How can I select this "info" field to?? somebody know??
View 2 Replies View RelatedHave a query that uses TOP 10; but I'm not receiving unique results and haven't been able to figure out using DISTINCT with TOP. Is it possible to use TOP with DISTINCT?
Thanks for any help/suggestions.
i'm in need of help woth this query, i've edited my post.
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I need help with a query on a single table.
The table in name, date, ss# and I need to get unique rows, but there can me many ss# to each date. I need to get the max date for each unique ss#.
Select distinct name, date, ss#
returns all rows, because dates are different, but I need to have the results contain all three columns of information.
Thanks for the help,
-Ken
Hi,
how can i run a distinct query on ONE column from one table that will show all columns.
SELECT DISTINCT *
FROM invInactive
WHERE (status = '13')
tagnum, status, inactivedate
----------------------------
1033, 13, today
1033, 13, yesterday
1095, 13, today
1205, 13, yesterday
basically, i just want to show this:
tagnum, status, inactivedate
----------------------------
1033, 13, today
1033, 13, yesterday
thanks for your help.
gonad.
Code:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[CastCompare]
@ID int,
@TopRecords int,
@Type int
AS
DECLARE @SQLSelect nVarchar(1000)
SET @SQLSelect = 'SELECT TOP ' + CAST(@TopRecords AS Varchar(10)) + ' * FROM TblCastList,TblCast where TblCastList.ProductResellerID=TblCast.ResellerID and TblCastList.ProductID=' + CAST(@ID AS Varchar(10)) + ' and TblCastList.Type=' + CAST(@Type AS Varchar(10)) + ' order by TblCast.[name] asc '
Exec sp_executesql @SQLSelect
GO
how Can I add distinct command to query ?
I tried something but none of them is work.
I want to add
distinct TblCastList.[ProductResellerID]
I have 2 tables as following :
tbl_Articles
3ArticleIDint
0AuthorIDint
0ArticleTitle
0ArticleText
0ArticleDate
tbl_Authors
3AuthorID
0AuthorFullName
0AuthorEmail
0AuthorDescription
0AuthorImage
I want to write a query to see the Authors and their last articles with no distinct values.
Like AuthorImage - AuthorFullName - ArticleTitle - ArticleDate
If anyone knows the solution i will be glad .
Thanks from now on
When i run this query,
select distinct(firstname + ' ' + lastname), firstname, lastname, department
from tbltest
it brings out 149 records
but when i run it with the extension field
select distinct(firstname + ' ' + lastname), firstname, lastname, department, extension
from tbltest
Is there like a limit to the distinct query on the number of columns returned ?
I have the following query:
SELECT DISTINCT PC.ContentID, PC.GeoUnitID, PC.ContactID, CT.ID, CT.PageTitle, C.FirstName, C.LastName, C.MainPhoneNO, C.EmailAddress
FROM ProductContacts PC INNER JOIN Content CT ON PC.ContentID = CT.ID INNER JOIN Contacts C ON PC.ContactID = C.ContactID
WHERE PC.GeoUnitID = @GeoUnitID
ORDER BY CT.PageTitle ASC
The problem I'm having is two rows have the same ContentID with a different ContactID. I want to only return a single row for each ContentID.
Is there a way around this?
Here's my query:
SELECT NotYetPublished, Available, Catalogx, pubdate, pubdate_full, NYP, Fulfillment, Title from finaldata where available <> 'Out-of-Print' or (totalnew <>0 and totalused <>0 and totalcollectible<>0) order by NYP desc, pubdate_full desc, Fulfillment desc, Title
I only want to return records that do not have the same Catalogx. I can't use distinct since some of the other data is different.
How can I accomplish this? Thanks in advance.
Hello everybody
I'm kind of newbie and I like to know if you can solve me a question,
The fact is I'm trying to gather some information and I don't know how. What I want to do is retrieve the values of five columns, the first one is the primary key, but the others must be unique (all together)
PK Value1 Value2 Value3 Value4
1 3 5 6 3
2 3 5 7 2
3 4 3 1 4
4 3 5 6 3 <- =PK1
I've tried with:
SELECT MesuraA, MesuraB, MesuraC, MesuraD
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT MesuraA, MesuraB, MesuraC, MesuraD
FROM barres_Ciampalini) AS derivedtbl_1
But I don't know how to retrieve the Id.
How Can I do that?
Thanks for read
This is probably easy but I can't work it out. I have this statementSELECT DISTINCT TOP 100 PERCENT dbo.CIF_PlaceReference.NameFROM dbo.CIF_Departures INNER JOINdbo.CIF_PlaceReference ON dbo.CIF_Departures.EndPoint= dbo.CIF_PlaceReference.PlaceIDORDER BY dbo.CIF_PlaceReference.NameThis results in a column of placenames which is OK. There are also multiple'time of day' values against each placename however I only want to returnthe one nearest to the current time. If I do this...SELECT DISTINCT TOP 100 PERCENTdbo.CIF_PlaceReference.Name,dbo.CIF_Departures.Sta rtTimeFROM dbo.CIF_Departures INNER JOINdbo.CIF_PlaceReference ON dbo.CIF_Departures.EndPoint= dbo.CIF_PlaceReference.PlaceIDORDER BY dbo.CIF_PlaceReference.Name.... I get multiple place names.Any ideas?
View 8 Replies View RelatedHello,
I have a reference table. This table has an effective date and end date, and I need to get a single set of values at a point in time. Suppose the following hotel rating values are the values that I want to pull out of the table:
1 Star2 Star
3 Star
4 Star
5 Star
This value has other information associated with it (benchmarks and such) and so it's possible that one of the 2 star entries gets end-dated, and then a new 2 Star entry gets created with an effective date and no end date.
How can I query so that I only get one 2 Star entry at any point, and get the point in time where the date is between the effective and end date, but only pull back a single set of entries, one distinct rating value. So, suppose the first entry is end-dated 7/1, if I look at old data, I want to see the old benchmarks and so I want the previous entry end-dated 7/1; otherwise, I want to see the new end-date, with the new 2 star entry with no end date.
How do I do that? Make sense?
Select A.SNO , A.Name , B.Picfrom Student A Left Join Picture BWhere A.SNo = B.PNoNo SNo Name Pic1 000 Andy /Doc/andy.jpg2 001 Andy /Doc/andy2.jpg3 002 VIVI /Doc/vivi.jpg4 003 VIVI /Doc/Vivi2.jpg The same person will only show 1 pic Pathlike this resultNo SNo Name Pic1 000 Andy /Doc/andy.jpg3 002 VIVI /Doc/vivi.jpgcan you please help? I trid use Group By but it not works..thank you
View 10 Replies View RelatedI have a table with following fields
tdate
custcode
prodcode
table is filled with full year data and i want following result
I want count of distinct custcode in every past three months.
for example
Result like this
month tjan tfeb tmar tapr tmay ..... tdec
prod1
prod2
.
.
prod5
And data under tmar should be count of distinct custcode of (jan,feb and mar) for corresponding prod code is required.
Under tapr, count of distinct custcode of (feb,mar and apr) for corresponding prod code is required.
Can any1 help me please.
I am using MS SQL 2005 and above table is a big table (approx 10 million records)
Sham
I have a need to only find distinct dates in which a worker worked in the factory using TSQL
Code:
RowNumber workerstartDate workerenddate
1 2012-08-08 2012-10-10
2 2012-08-10 2012-08-31
3 2012-09-05 2012-09-15
4 2012-10-15 2012-12-19
5 2013-01-02 2013-03-14
62013-03-15 2013-05-23
Basically, I am looking for the above to look like this
Code:
rownumberworkerstartDate workerenddate
12012-08-08 2012-10-10
42012-10-15 2012-12-19
52013-01-02 2013-03-14
62013-03-15 2013-05-23
I am trying to append data from a source table to a destination table, the only difference between the tables is that a primary key has been established on the destination table. Problem is, the source table has a handful of duplicate values in the column that corresponds to primary on destination table; so when I run the query I get a primary key conflict. What I'd like to do is select distinct values from the source table to avoid the conflict, but am having trouble getting it to run. Here is the statement-
INSERT INTO cust_master
SELECT DISTINCT cust_master_temp.*
FROM cust_mast_temp LEFT OUTER JOIN
cust_master ON cust_master.temp.CUST_NUMBER = cust_master.CUST_NUMBER
Doesn't seem to be understanding "Distinct"
Any Ideas?
Here's my query:
Select portfolio, custnumber from table
some custnumbers are the same. However I only want the query to include one portfolio per custnumber, ideally the first portfolio.
How would I accomplish this?
Many thanks!
I have a problem with a SQL SELECT query. As far as my research goes i figured out that UNIQUE is used when you have one column that you whant unique and DISTINCT is used when you have more than one column that you want to all be unique. But i have a query where i want just some of the columns to be unique and some not. Here is the full query (It's in a stored procedure):
set ANSI_NULLS ON
set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[rpt_ExecSum_Combined_4fields](@BondGroupID int)
AS SELECT DISTINCT
SUM(dbo.Bond.LoanAmount) AS SumOfBondValue, COUNT(dbo.Bond.BondID) AS CountOfBond, dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType
FROM dbo.BondGroup INNER JOIN
dbo.TransactionTable ON dbo.BondGroup.BondGroupID = dbo.TransactionTable.BondGroupID INNER JOIN
dbo.Bond ON dbo.TransactionTable.TransactionID = dbo.Bond.TransactionID INNER JOIN
dbo.ProgressStep ON dbo.TransactionTable.TransactionID = dbo.ProgressStep.TransactionID INNER JOIN
dbo.ProgressStepType ON dbo.ProgressStep.ProgressStepTypeID = dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepTypeID
WHERE (dbo.BondGroup.BondGroupID = @BondGroupID)
GROUP BY dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType, dbo.ProgressStep.ProgressStepID
HAVING (dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType = 'AIP (Approval in Principle) received') OR
(dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType = 'Grants') OR
(dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType = 'Attorney') OR
(dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType = 'Feedback received from bank')
ORDER BY dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType
*********
With the DISTINCT it gives me a full set of unique values but what i want is this: Every CountOfBond may have more than one SumOfBondValue and they may be the same, but if there is more than one dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType the query should only read it once. In other words the dbo.ProgressStepType.ProgressStepType is a unique value and the rest not...
Please help, my boss is on my case :)
I am developing a web site for my buddies and I to track the winnings fom my home poker games.
Table that keeps track of games goes like:
PlayerID
PokerGameID
curWon
I want to sort by top money maker nd show total won to date
I have tried to use:
Select Distinct Sum(G.curWon) AS curCash, P.playerID FROM GameReults As G, Players As G WHERE G.PlayerID=G.PlayerID Group By G.curWon, G.PlayerID
I can not getit to sort from highet to lowest and it itrates through each record. I only want it to show distinct players and their winnings. Can you please help?
Here's my query:
Select top 500 email, custnumber from MailingList order by email
There may be some duplicate email addresses with different custnumbers. What would the query look like to only show records with unique email addresses, but still return the unique custnumbers in the query.
Thanks in advance.
I need p.phonenumber in there but then it messes up my DISTINCT ON m.number because I end up with dup m.numbers if I run just the inner select statement during testing.
But then I need the phonenumber in that subquery so that I can do list.phonenumber
ahh!
UPDATE Master
SET master.homephone = list.phonenumber
FROM MASTER m
INNER JOIN
(SELECT DISTINCT p.number, topphone.phonenumber
FROM phones p
INNER JOIN (SELECT top 1 phonenumber from phones) as topphone ON topphone.number = p.number
WHERE p.phonetypeID = 1
AND ISNULL(p.good, 0) <> 0
AND LEN(p.phonenumber) = 10
) AS list ON m.Number = list.Number
WHERE m.homephone IS NULL OR m.homephone = ''
Error:
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure Skiaa, Line 66
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'top'.
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Procedure Skiaa, Line 88
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'top'.
I want to update m.homephone with the p.phonenumber based in the filtering critiria I have specified but this simple task is turning out to be a pain.
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. :(
when i use select :
select flattened
(select productid, $support from [model name].[table] )......
i have result with many record same.
so i write :
select flattened
(select distinct productid, $support from [model name].[table] )......
but when i run, it's error. ( don't know what error).
how can i do to get table record with not same record (loop)
note : it write in DTS and i use sql 2000
I am trying to build a report with a prompt to select building. It all works fine except I in the prompt building is list as may times as there is data for it. I want it to only display once, but not effect the other data is there a way I can query this?
I have my 2 datasets and my parameter set up to display building to select from. My issue is I get multiple values in the Select Value Prompt. It will pull the correct data I just want to clean up the Select Value Prompt.
Example: of prompt list
Building 1
Building 1
Building 1
Building 2
Building 2
Dataset 1:
Select Building, First, Last
From Table
Dataset 2:
SELECT Building, First, Last
From Table
WHERE (Table.Building = @Building)
Hello, I want to do a DISTINCT SELECT query with more than one field, for example a ID field with a Type field, as if both fields make the primary key, like (ID 1 ,Type 1) ,( ID 1, Type 2) and (ID 2, Type 1) is ok but not (ID 1, Type1) and (ID 1,Type 1) if its not possible to do a distinct with more than one then what other techniques are possible to get the duplicate data out. the reason why I want to use distinct is that I can use that query to export that data to where both of these fields make the primary key.
Thanks in advance
I need to return the current case cost for every UPC in my table. In my current query I return case costs that have an effective date of today or earlier. The problem is that in my results, one UPC may have two or more case costs that were are effective <= GETDATE(). I can sort it by effective date (DESC) so I know the first of every UPC in my results will be the current effective case cost, but how do I modify my query so that in my result set I only get the first of every UPC?
Here is my query:
SELECT factCaseCosts.nUpcKey, factCaseCosts.dCaseCost, factCaseCosts.dtEffectiveDate
FROM factCaseCosts
WHERE (factCaseCosts.dtEffectiveDate <= GETDATE())
ORDER BY dtEffectiveDate DESC
Here is my current result set:
52023.762006-08-01 00:00:00
52023.762006-02-18 00:00:00
52123.762006-08-01 00:00:00
52123.762006-02-18 00:00:00
52230.362006-08-01 00:00:00
52230.362006-02-18 00:00:00
52323.762006-08-01 00:00:00
52323.762006-02-18 00:00:00
I only want the first 520 returned, the first 521 returned, the first 522 returned, and the first 523 returned.
How can I do this?
Thanks!
Hello all.
Ive got the following SQL query and i want to return only distinct [ReviewID]'s, however SQL Server is complaining about it. This is the query:
SELECT DISTINCT Top 5 [ReviewID],[ReviewType],[ReviewTypeName],[LoginID],[LoginForename],[LoginSurname],[Approved],[ReviewDate]
,[Stars],[RelatedProductID],[Title],[Copy],[Rating], [Image1], [Image1Width], [Image1Height], [Image1AltText], [Image2], [Image2Width], [Image2Height], [Image2AltText],
[CategoryL4]
FROM [feManagedReview]
This is whats its complaining about:
Msg 421, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The text data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable.
Msg 421, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The text data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable.
Msg 421, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The text data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable.
Any ideas where im going wrong?
I need to know how many widgets are located at each factory.
I have a table called "Widgets". The pertinent column(s) are:
Factory UID
By using only this table I can group the results by the FactoryUID to get the answer. However, this table does not tell me the factory name.
I have a table called "Factories". The pertinent column(s) are:
FactoryUID
FactoryName
I can join these two tables by the FactoryUID. But I don't know how to write this query so that my results will look like the following table:
FactoryName Widgets
Factory1 100
Factory2 200
Factory3 300