> I would suggest appending an "ORDER BY atomtype" first of all.

That's what I did, see original select statement:

mysql> select distinct atomtype from `gentradedb`.`gpatomdb` order by
atomtype;

> You could also experiment with SELECT DISTINCT to remove any dupes from
> your output.

Experiment how?

> Also, don't confuse the RANGE of values that the atomtype can be (0-255)
> if set to be UNSIGNED with the NUMBER OF ROWS in your output. The
> TINYINT is working. You have no values greater than 255 in there. You
> just have duplicates which gives you more rows than you were expecting I
> think. ;-)

I don't think I do, the database has several millions rows.

Thanks for pointing out the dups, isn't what select distinct is meant to do?

Terry

---------

>
> I would suggest appending an "ORDER BY atomtype" first of all.
>
> I say this because if you scan your results, you have duplicates...
>
> |      165 |
> |      166 |
> |      167 |  <---
> |      168 |
> |      169 |
> |      170 |
> |      171 |
> |      172 |
> |      173 |
> |      174 |
> |      175 |
> |      167 |  <---
> |      175 |
>
> So you prolly have other in there too.
>
> You could also experiment with SELECT DISTINCT to remove any dupes from
> your output.
>
> DÆVID.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Horizon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 7:46 PM
> > To: Mysql List
> > Subject: unexpected: 260 rows in set on a TINYINT
> >
> >
> > mysql> select distinct atomtype from `gentradedb`.`gpatomdb`  order by
> > atomtype;
> >
> > +----------+
> > | atomtype |
> > +----------+
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> > +----------+
> > 260 rows in set (6 min 53.71 sec)
> >
> >
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