select distinct values

[elain he]

Hi,
Could someone shed some light on this.
I'm trying to formulate a query to return distinct value on a column - 
testid.

select * from testing;
TESTID NAME             STATUS
---------- -------------------- -----------
        1 MIKE                  Y
        1 JOE                   Y
        1 JIM                    Y
        2 AMY                  Y
The output I'm expecting is
TESTID NAME             STATUS
---------- -------------------- -----------
        1 MIKE                  Y
        2 AMY                   Y
The query should display the first occurence of the testid and ignore 
records with the same testid.

thanks!

elain

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