On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:41 PM, revDAVE <c...@hosting4days.com> wrote:
> Newbie question
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I would like to be able to query a table, and return only the unique values
> from a particular field. For example: to get all contents from the category
> field from the contacts table:
>
> Query = ....
>
> SELECT Category FROM contacts
>
> But this will produce many duplicates.
>
> Question : How do I filter the query to only produce unique values?
>
> I was looking at: array_unique but I am not sure how to implement this in a
> MYSql table query....
>
> Any help would be appreciated - thanks Dave
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks - RevDave
> Cool @ hosting4days . com
> [db-lists 09]
>


SELECT DISTINCT Category FROM contacts

Andrew

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