Selecting Distinct Rows From 1 Table??

[Andy]

Hi Gang

I have a simple single table that has many duplicate rows in them. The
distinctrows only works on more than one table. Is there a quick and
easy way to select only the distict rows from one table?

Regards,
Andy

[Anthony England]

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Hi Gang

I have a simple single table that has many duplicate rows in them. The
distinctrows only works on more than one table. Is there a quick and
easy way to select only the distict rows from one table?

Regards,
Andy

Your table really has identical rows - every column? This means there can't
be a primary key, nor is there any way to tell one row from another - so it
doesn't matter which one of the duplicates you select.
Set the Distinct Values property on the query which generates a query like:

SELECT DISTINCT * FROM Table1

PS I don't think I would state 'distinct rows only works on multiple
tables'. However, if only one table is involved then it should return the
same number of rows as are in the table - that's what you asked it to do.