[SQL] Re: Distinct Values

2001-06-12 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Nicolas schrieb: > Hi, > > I'm trying to retreive DISTINCT Values from a two colomn table called > "Books". The colomns are named "Author" and "URL". > DISTINCT values should be retieved from the "Author" Colomn , and then I > should be able to retrieve the corresponding URL. > How do I build the

[SQL] Re: Distinct Values

2001-06-12 Thread Hans-Jürgen Schönig
I want a "dirty" solution try something like that. If you use "group by author" url must be in aggregate function. The authors are now DISTINCT. myjava=# SELECT author, max(url) FROM books group by author; author | max +- abc| dsafsdf cde| sdfdsf (2 rows) Hans