Select * from tablename group by customername order by serialnum DESC; or select distinct * from tablename order by serialnum DESC; On Saturday 03 September 2005 12:34 pm, ziv gabel wrote: > Hi everyone > I just need something that I believe is very simple only I can't find an > answer for it anywhere > > I have a database that each row has a machine, its serial, the customer and > other details. The problem is that I have customers with more than one > machine and I need to query for all the rows, but I don't want the rows > that contain duplicate customers. > The problem is that the only way for me to know the right row from let's > say 3 rows that contain the same customer name is the serial number which > needs to be the higher. > > So all I need a query to do that. > > Thanks in advanced > Ziv -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php