On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 11:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I know this is a little off Topic but you have all been so much help in the 
> Past.

Nah, your not OT. Now if you were describe your dream truck, that'd be
off topic. A quick guide:

Off Topic:
        Republic/Democrat bashing
        Criticism of Linux/Unix
        Ads for your product or service (even disguised as a question)
        Job openings at McDonalds/using MS only software
        My Little Pony

On Topic:
        DMCA bashing
        Microsoft bashing
        Ads for your product or service if you're cool like XMission
        Job opening playing with cool tech.
        Strong Bad

> I have a Very Large table in a database (2000) or more entries.  What i want is 
> a query that will return an array or something of all the unique entries of a 
> particular collum.  For Example.
> I have a table with 2500 names seperated into Last_name First_name. 
> I want to run a query that gives all the unique first names (excluding repeats)
> This is for A PHP-mysql project

IANAMU (I am not a MySQL user) but, this is just simple SQL if I
understand the question correctly.

select unique First_name from names_table;

also know as

select distinct First_name from names_table;

-- 
Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED], AIM:StuartMJansen>

"What hole did you dig that up from?" 
   -- my roommate commenting on my taste in music

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