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Setting a distinct value from 2 columns

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I have a query that results in something like:

field 1 field 2
red blue
green black
blue red
orange black

What I want to do is make it so I only show distinct rows; however I want the distinction/uniqueness based on what's in field 1 and 2.
In other words, I would like the instance of red,blue(field1,field2) and blue,red to be detected as repeated values and thus only display one of those 2 rows.

resulting in:
field 1 field 2
red blue
green black
orange black

Does anyone know how to do this? I thought it would be trivial but I've spent a few hours and havn't been able to figure it out =/

Thanks.
Feb 7 '08 #1
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MMcCarthy
14,534 Expert Mod 8TB
The logic won't let you do what you are thinking of unless I am mistaken. I can't think of any way to achieve what you want without some really complicated code. Even then I'm not sure if its possible.

Maybe I'm missing something that someone else will pick up on. The way I see this is your record is in the format of Field1, Field2 (e.g. red, black). However, (red, black) is not the same as (black, red) as far as databases are concerned. In other words these are not two duplicate records.
Feb 11 '08 #2

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