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hi everyone, im new to thescripts and hope you can help ok this is what i have:

Oracle table:
ID PNumber URL
1 1 ../../media/images/the villa/image1.jpg
2 2 ../../media/images/tester/oakVilla.jpg
3 2 ../../media/images/tester/oakVilla2.jpg
4 2 ../../media/images/tester/oakVilla2.jpg
5 1 ../../media/images/the villa/image2jpg

xsql query:
<xsql:query>
SELECT DISTINCT dbPNumber, dbId, dbUrl
FROM pictures
</xsql:query>

Basically i want to only get the first record for each PNumber ie so it only returns:
1 1 ../../media/images/the villa/image1.jpg
2 2 ../../media/images/tester/oakVilla.jpg

But my query returns all the records instead. i thought SELECT DISTINCT dbPNumber.... would only select a records with a dbPNumber once?

Or is there an easier way to select the first record of each dbPNumber?

Any help would be great!
Apr 3 '07 #1
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bvbalaganesh
5 New Member
Hi, you can use Group by clause or Rank clause
Apr 4 '07 #2

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