On Wed, 30 May 2001, Nicolas wrote:
> 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.
> Author URL
> ---
> A http://www.xyz http://www.abc .com
> - -
> B http://www.def http://www.ijk http://www.rst .com
> - -
>
> If that is what you want, you cannot manage it.
Sure, in no way this is possible with SQL (in
Bret,
> I have a table indexed on a char(35) field and want a query to return a
> distinct list of the values in this column. Is there some syntactical
> magic I can do to get these values without a sequential scan? I assume,
> ( here we go again ) that these values are in the index somewhere an
