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elisam75
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 Posted - 2012-12-21 : 12:12:49
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| 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? |
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sunitabeck
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2012-12-21 : 12:41:52
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You can use DISTINCT as inSELECT DISTINCT col1,col2,col3FROM 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
Starting Member
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Posted - 2012-12-21 : 12:45:36
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| 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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