Dear Hayan,

> Which of the following SQL queries is faster and better
> "select thefield from thetable group by thetable"
> Or
> "select distinct thefield from thetable"?
> and WHY?


=if you use the MySQL command line to issue a query, a summary report follows any 
output giving number of rows
affected and the time taken.

=which of the two is quicker?
=dn



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