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jgandara
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Posted - 09/02/2005 :  11:12:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I have a table that stores user id and name on every record.Usually the name can change with time, so I have a query that groups by id and name, but instead of 1 records I get 2 or more.i.e:
UserId-----UserName
ABC--------ABC User
ABC--------ABC Users

How can I get only one record by userid, no matter which one?

I get the user name from another database, which can be deleted, so I need to keep this info to be available in my app for historical reasons

SamC
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Posted - 09/02/2005 :  11:25:39  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You have multiple records per UserID. Which UserName do you want?

If it doesn't matter...

SELECT UserID, MIN(UserName) As UserName FROM MyTable GROUP BY UserID
Edited by - SamC on 09/02/2005 11:29:26
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jgandara
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Posted - 09/02/2005 :  11:42:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It was in front of my nose, I didn't think about grouping using Min or Max with varchar fields.

It worked thank you
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