use DISTINCT? On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:51 pm, Bobo Wieland wrote: > Anyone that can help me with this one? I want this SQL-statement to > retrive only distinct values from the original table column named (not > the AS stuff) > > ( > SELECT * , namn_2 AS sec_namn, namn_1 AS one > FROM sortiment > WHERE namn_1 LIKE 'H%' > ) > UNION ( > > SELECT * , UPPER( namn_2 ) AS sec_namn, namn_2 AS one > FROM sortiment > WHERE namn_2 LIKE 'H%' > AND SUBSTRING( namn_2, 1, 1 ) LIKE BINARY 'H' > ) > ORDER BY one > LIMIT 0 , 10 > > this will return, for example, the following row twice where (in the > original table) > namn_1 = "Humulus lupulus" > namn_2 = "Humle" > > the two rows are identical except for the "sec_namn" and "one" created > by the query. They are set to: > sec_namn one > HUMLE Humle > Humle Humulus lupulus > > > > > _bobo wieland _ dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _ > winamp >> Not playing anything right now... -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php