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Excluding almost duplicates from a UNION
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29/06/2001 08:56:52
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00524751
Message ID:
00525126
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>You know, I thought of that and then thought it wouldn't work. But now that I think about it again, I'm not sure why. I'll try it. :)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Michelle
>
>>Use GROUP BY Purno.
>>
>>Hilmar.

I have no idea why this didn't work for you - I use GROUP BY all the time; sometimes to select only a few records out of many (i.e., eliminate duplicates).

Please note that Visual FoxPro might select some random record for the fields that are not unique!

Hilmar.
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