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elisam75
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Posted - 12/21/2012 :  12:12:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This may sound basic, but I am new to these statement.

My simple statement has duplicate rows. Lets say 100 rows per contact with the same information. How do I make the statement just pull on row per contact? Not sure if I should use DISTINCT OR JOINS?

sunitabeck
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Posted - 12/21/2012 :  12:41:52  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You can use DISTINCT as in
SELECT DISTINCT
   col1,col2,col3
FROM
   YourTable
The thing to keep in mind though, is that distinctness is determined by all the columns in the select list. If even one column has different values, then the two rows are considered distinct and so you will get two rows in the output.

There are other ways to do distinct - see Madhivanan's blog
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elisam75
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Posted - 12/21/2012 :  12:45:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thank you I will give it a try. I think I became a bit impatient and didn't wait log enough. I have thousands of records to go through.
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