In addition to Craig's reply: You can GROUP BY, to specify which columns should be unique. For each group of related records (i.e., same key fields according to GROUP BY), a single summary record is created.
>I am trying to get distinct values on one of the character type column that has numerical values. The field is called e_pic.
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>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
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>the result is still returning duplicate values. What am I doing wrong here?
>thanks in advance..
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>nick
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