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SELECT unique records only

If one had a massive Table with lots of duplicate rows for most of the information. Speaking of the street address, City, State, ZIP.

Given the following table:

First name - Char 20
Middle Name - Char 20
Last Name - Char 20
Street address - Char 20
City - Char 20
State - Char 2
Zip - Char 5
Zip + 4 - Char 4

Assuming that many different people can live at the same address.

How would one using a SELECT statement pull only the unique addresses? i.e. street address to zip + 4

Just a rookie. But trying to learn fast.

Thanks for any help.
Apr 27 '07 #1
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pbmods
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How would one using a SELECT statement pull only the unique addresses? i.e. street address to zip + 4

Just a rookie. But trying to learn fast.

Thanks for any help.
Use a SELECT DISTINCT query.

SELECT DISTINCT * FROM `table` GROUP BY `address`, `city`, etc.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/select.html
Apr 29 '07 #2

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