I can't see how distinct would help there because it only returns unique rows.
I would say that the main question is how much data you have. I mean, it is probably easier to grab all the data and then discard (or simply loop over) the data you do not need. However, if you have a huge number of records that may not be practical. On Monday, July 23, 2012 11:15:14 PM UTC+1, Mark Li wrote: > > I have a database setup with id and 'dogname.' I would like to retrieve > distinct values of dogname, but allow for 2 of each dogname. So instead of > limiting it to one distinct value, there could be 2 identical dognames that > are retrieved, but no more than that. > > Is there a way to set this kind of limit for distinct? > --
