> zv Green wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> What I want to do is select all the records from the table but where >> there >> are duplicate entries (based on say, the surname and postcode fields) >> pick a random record and then ignore the rest. > > If you want to pick a random record, you can do ORDER BY RANDOM LIMIT 1 > or so. (warning, untested)
And I think you will want to group by surname and postcode in order to filter out the duplicates. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
