Hi, sorry i tried to help but i hardly understand the use of join in your query since the joined table is not used anywhere.
________________________________ From: Trimurthy <trimur...@tulassi.com> To: mysql@lists.mysql.com Sent: Thursday, 4 April 2013, 14:21 Subject: Join query returning duplicate entries Hi list, i wrote the following query and it is returning duplicate entries as shown below, can any one suggest me how to avoid this duplicate entries, with out using distinct. Query: select p.date,p.coacode,p.type,p.crdr,p.quantity,p.amount from ac_financialpostings p join (select iac from ims_itemcodes where (cat = 'Male Birds' or cat = 'Female Birds')) i on p.coacode = i.iac where p.trnum like '%02' and p.date between '2012-10-04' and '2013-04-04' order by date Output: +------------+---------+--------------------+------+----------+--------+ | date | coacode | type | crdr | quantity | amount | +------------+---------+--------------------+------+----------+--------+ | 2012-10-06 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 13 | 0 | | 2012-10-06 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 13 | 0 | | 2012-10-06 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 22 | 0 | | 2012-10-06 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 22 | 0 | | 2012-10-06 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-10-06 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-10-06 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 8 | 0 | | 2012-10-06 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 8 | 0 | | 2012-10-06 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 9 | 0 | | 2012-10-06 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 9 | 0 | | 2012-10-13 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 9 | 0 | | 2012-10-13 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 9 | 0 | | 2012-10-13 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 13 | 0 | | 2012-10-13 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 13 | 0 | | 2012-10-13 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 15 | 0 | | 2012-10-13 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 15 | 0 | | 2012-10-13 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 9 | 0 | | 2012-10-13 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 9 | 0 | | 2012-10-13 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-10-13 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-10-20 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 1 | 0 | | 2012-10-20 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 14 | 0 | | 2012-10-20 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 14 | 0 | | 2012-10-20 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 12 | 0 | | 2012-10-20 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 12 | 0 | | 2012-10-20 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-10-20 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-10-20 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 10 | 0 | | 2012-10-20 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 10 | 0 | | 2012-10-20 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 1 | 0 | | 2012-10-27 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 13 | 0 | | 2012-10-27 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 13 | 0 | | 2012-10-27 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-10-27 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-10-27 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 11 | 0 | | 2012-10-27 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 11 | 0 | | 2012-10-27 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 12 | 0 | | 2012-10-27 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 12 | 0 | | 2012-10-27 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 9 | 0 | | 2012-10-27 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 9 | 0 | | 2012-11-03 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 4 | 0 | | 2012-11-03 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 4 | 0 | | 2012-11-03 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 4 | 0 | | 2012-11-03 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 4 | 0 | | 2012-11-03 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 8 | 0 | | 2012-11-03 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 8 | 0 | | 2012-11-03 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-11-03 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-11-03 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 8 | 0 | | 2012-11-03 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 8 | 0 | | 2012-11-10 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-11-10 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-11-10 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 6 | 0 | | 2012-11-10 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 6 | 0 | | 2012-11-10 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 3 | 0 | | 2012-11-10 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 3 | 0 | | 2012-11-10 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 6 | 0 | | 2012-11-10 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 6 | 0 | | 2012-11-10 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 12 | 0 | | 2012-11-10 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 12 | 0 | | 2012-11-17 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 10 | 0 | | 2012-11-17 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 10 | 0 | | 2012-11-17 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 6 | 0 | | 2012-11-17 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 6 | 0 | | 2012-11-17 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 2 | 0 | | 2012-11-17 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 2 | 0 | | 2012-11-17 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-11-17 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-11-17 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 13 | 0 | | 2012-11-17 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 13 | 0 | | 2012-11-24 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 19 | 0 | | 2012-11-24 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 19 | 0 | | 2012-11-24 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-11-24 | 600500 | Birds Amortization | Cr | 0 | 411939 | | 2012-11-24 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 14 | 0 | | 2012-11-24 | 600500 | MORTALITY | Cr | 14 | 0 | +------------+---------+--------------------+------+----------+--------+ 76 rows in set (0.02 sec) mysql> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA Thanks & Kind Regards, TRIMURTHY
