I am trying to get distinct values on one of the character type column that has numerical values. The field is called e_pic.

SELECT DISTINCT e_pic as imageid, e_dob as dob, e_empstatus as extrahelp, e_flg13 as eyes, e_id as eid,;
		e_flg14 as wt, e_flg15 as ht, e_flg16 as pmt, e_fname as firstname, e_lname as lastname, ;
		e_mi as mi, e_phq as division,  e_unit as unit, e_class as pos_class ;
				from rv_employee_tbl_c_drive INTO CURSOR crs_data ORDER BY imageid
BROWSE

the result is still returning duplicate values. What am I doing wrong here?
thanks in advance..

nick