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oepirobo
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Posted - 2003-03-06 : 15:04:45

I have this table:

FirstName LastName City State
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Al Bundy Chicago Ill
Peg Bundy Gary Ind
Johnathan Davis LA Cal
Del Davis Omaha Neb
Geena Davis Seattle Was

I need to see all fields but only one row per last name, so I would only see:

FirstName LastName City State
------------------------------------------
Al Bundy Chicago Ill
Johnathan Davis LA Cal

How do I do this?

nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2003-03-06 : 17:39:52

What is the PK?
If it's FirstName, LastName

select t1.*
from tbl t1
where t1.FirstName = (select min(t2.FirstName) from tbl t2 where t1.LastName = t2.LastName)

But you probably have an id or guid so use that for the subquery join.

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