RE: Select DISTINCT question

I think he just misread the "group by" as an "order by"

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Ron,

What am I missing? Both selects will ALWAYS return the same data. Correct???

Rick

                                                                                       
                            
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Beth,
 Without going into very much detail about the two selects. 1 will return only the records that are distinct from each other and 2 will return all rows in a particular order. Using 1 could result in the elimination of records if there is more than one record that meets the distinct criteria. Order by will show duplicate records easily. ROR mª¿ªm

>>> Beth.Seefelt_at_TetleyUSA.com 02/06/02 09:53AM >>>

Hi everyone,

Is one of these more correct than the other ?

1. select distinct customer_number, address_code from orders;
2. select customer_number, address_code from orders group by customer_number,address_code;

Our developers do the 1st one mostly. It always bothers me, I'm not sure why, I guess I just think of it as looking ambiguous even though it does return the same result as the second option.

Any opinions? Does it maReceived: from CONNECT-MTA by galottertter at all?

TIA, Beth

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