Colin Law wrote in post #975727: > On 18 January 2011 15:14, James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: >>> >>> If you are selecting distinct client_category, and want the full row, >>> which >>> of the two "Cat1" rows should it return? >> >> What I want to accomplish is to obtain one example of each value and the >> entire row that contains it. How does one do that? I do not care which >> row is returned but I only want one row for each distinct value. > > Why? If you do not care which row is returned then presumably you do > not care what is in the rest of the row so why do you need it? > > Colin
Because I want one representative row for each category. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
