select distinct item from $table
It sounds like you might want to read up a little on normalization, however.
> I would like to modify the following statement
>
> select Item from $table
>
> in such a way that it checks what kinds different items are in the
database. Hence, only those values should be returned, which are not
identical to each other. Example: Apple (5 occurances), Apple-Pie (3
occurances), Pumpkin (8 occurances) should return the list Apple, Apple-Pie,
Pumpkin. How do I do this?
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