* Petre Agenbag
> The distinct clause will return only one occurrance of the
> implicated field.
> distinctrow would do the same, but for an entire row. what I am
> looking for
> is something like distinctset(field1,field2,field7) , is this what the
> MAX-CONCAT "trick" attempts to do?
Not exactly
head.).
Thanks in any event for your time and interest.
-Original Message-
From: Roger Baklund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:49 AM
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Cc: Petre Agenbag
Subject: Re: help to structure query without using subselects
* Petre Agenbag
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* Petre Agenbag
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> This works:
>
> select distinct name, max(id) as mid from table group by name
>
> but it only returns the name and the highest id for such a name.
>
> if I try this:
>
> select distinct name, max(id) as mid, anything_else from table group by
> name
>
> it returns the FIRST
