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Hey, I keep searching the forum, but can't exactly what I need.
I have a table (tbl_road) with tons of fields. I need to create a new table (tbl_road_disti nct) with unique values of an field (road_id), as there are multiple values,. So, this works fine
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  1. CREATE TABLE tbl_road_distinct
  2. SELECT DISTINCT (road_id)
  3. FROM tbl_road
thats fine, but i want it to bring the rest of the attributes associated with the unique records over too (ideally the first occurrence of each record). I Do not have a PK either as its just a temp table..
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
Eric
PS I am working with MySQL 5.*
MySQL Query Browser 1.*
on Windows XP
Oct 20 '06 #1
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erbrose
58 New Member
Hey, I keep searching the forum, but can't exactly what I need.
I have a table (tbl_road) with tons of fields. I need to create a new table (tbl_road_disti nct) with unique values of an field (road_id), as there are multiple values,. So, this works fine
Expand|Select|Wrap|Line Numbers
  1. CREATE TABLE tbl_road_distinct
  2. SELECT DISTINCT (road_id)
  3. FROM tbl_road
thats fine, but i want it to bring the rest of the attributes associated with the unique records over too (ideally the first occurrence of each record). I Do not have a PK either as its just a temp table..
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated
Eric
PS I am working with MySQL 5.*
MySQL Query Browser 1.*
on Windows XP
So it looks like this does what I want.... am I correct in my assumption???
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  1. CREATE TABLE tbl_road_distinct
  2. SELECT * 
  3. FROM tbl_road
  4. GROUP BY road_id
  5.  
Oct 20 '06 #2

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