>"Lars Hilsebein" <lars.hilsebein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:60D21430A600D61193B30050DA5C4E370F1F37@xxxxxxxxx >Sorry, but it's not truly what I am searching for: >The result is not unique. >What I mean is: every entry in the distinct_col should only be delivered >once. >As it would happen when I do the query "SELECT DISTINCT distinct_col FROM >table". >But I need to fetch the whole row. > >Lars Hi Lars, the problem is that MySQL doesn't know *which* row to select because if you use distinct it means there are several rows with this value in distinct_col. Maybe you should try filtering the results in PHP. You could create an array with the distinct value as the key and the whole row as the value. Then on each loop iteration check if you already have a row in your array with the current distinct_col value. Regards, Torsten Roehr -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php