Sir, try
GROUP BY test_name.name, build.name

Bob Hall

>I'm simplifying slightly, here's the basic tables:
>
>build
>-------
>idx    int
>name   char(16)
>
>test_name
>--------
>idx    int
>name   char(64)
>
>main_table
>------------
>idx    int unsigned
>test_name_idx     medint
>status                 char
>build  int
>swip   char(11)
>
>I want to do the following query, but a little more:
>
>select distinct   test_name.name, status, build.name  from main_table,
>test_name, build where test_name_idx=test_name.idx AND build.name ='x5.1.0'
>AND build.idx=build_idx;
>
>The above works fine.  But  I need to get the swip value at the same time,
>which will break the distict function of returning one result for each test
>name because I may have multiple results for a single test name & build.
>The following does not work:
>
>select distinct   test_name.name, status, build.name, swip  from main_table,
>test_name, build where test_name_idx=test_name.idx AND build.name
>='x5.1.0' AND build.idx=build_idx;
>
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>-mike
>
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