Re: [PHP-DB] Unique SQL query?????????????

2002-06-11 Thread Lisi

Try adding 'distinct' before the field you are selecting.

-Lisi

At 01:42 AM 6/8/02 +0100, Georgie Casey wrote:
Is there any SQL command that will return a list of *unique* entries from a
fied. ie only repeat one for duplicates

i have a database of products, each having a category, and obviously a lot
of products have the same category and I want to create an index of all the
different categories.
  thanks

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Re: [PHP-DB] Unique SQL query?????????????

2002-06-07 Thread Jason Wong

On Saturday 08 June 2002 08:42, Georgie Casey wrote:
 Is there any SQL command that will return a list of *unique* entries from a
 fied. ie only repeat one for duplicates

 i have a database of products, each having a category, and obviously a lot
 of products have the same category and I want to create an index of all the
 different categories.

SELECT DISTINCT category FROM products

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