Hi,

I have a table with many columns (columnA, columnB, columnC) and I want to 
know, how many different entries in columnB are.
I would do such an SQL query:

    select distinct columnB from myTable;

I see there is also ``distinct()`` in SQL Alchemy.

However - I am using Class defined ORM like this:

    class MyTable(db.Model):
         __tablename__ = "myTable"
        columnA = db.Column(...)
        columnB = db.Column(...)
        columnC = db.Column(...)

Thus, I am querying like this:


    MyTable.query.all()

The problem seems to be that I was not able to figure out a way to reduce 
the columns, e.g. when I add a ``distinct``


    MyTable.query.distinct.all()

The distinct function will always use **all** columns.
I also tried ``load_only`` with no success.

I understand, I could define a class, containing only the required column, 
then I am told, I should just some ``extend_existing``.

What is the required way to use  ``distinct`` in a class based query?

Thanks a lot 
Cornelius

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