On Friday 20 December 2002 13:35, Steve Vernon wrote: > MySQL as the filter stupidly does not match SELECT > > Hiya, > How do you get a disctinct value from one collumn only? I am basically > using it to construct a dynamic menu, and need the menu names at a level. > > Items are in one table, like CATEGORY, SUBCATEGORY, SUBSUBCATEGORY, > PAGE, ID > > I could just use SELECT DISCTINCT subcategory FROM placetype WHERE > category='Random' > > But if this subcategory does not have any daughters then I would prefer > to do: > > SELECT DISCTINCT subcategory, page, id FROM placetype WHERE > category='Random' > > But this returns multiple versions becauyse of how distinct works.
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