Re: constructing a select and excluding duplicates

2004-11-04 Thread SGreen
Nope, You need a key on your SOURCE column to help this query respond. ALTER TABLE email_table ADD KEY(SOURCE); Then, try again. Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine Rob Kudyba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/04/2004 02:02:09 PM: > Wow even the 1st query seems to

Re: constructing a select and excluding duplicates

2004-11-04 Thread Rob Kudyba
Wow even the 1st query seems to be taking a while...been like 5 minutes. The DB has "only" around 80,000 records. I do have an index key which is "email_address_id" so would adding that in the query help speed it up? Thanks for the quick reply & suggestion... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This query

Re: constructing a select and excluding duplicates

2004-11-04 Thread Rob Kudyba
Rhino wrote: - Original Message - From: "Rob Kudyba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:26 PM Subject: constructing a select and excluding duplicates I am trying to construct a SELECT statement on distinct email

Re: constructing a select and excluding duplicates

2004-11-04 Thread SGreen
This query will list all of the email addresses where SOURCE='Source1' but are not listed within any other source SELECT et1.email_address FROM email_table et1 LEFT JOIN email_table et2 on et2.email_address = et1.email_address and et2.SOURCE <> 'Source1' WHERE et1.SOURCE = 'Source

Re: constructing a select and excluding duplicates

2004-11-04 Thread Rhino
- Original Message - From: "Rob Kudyba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:26 PM Subject: constructing a select and excluding duplicates > I am trying to construct a SELECT statement on distinct email addresses. &g

Re: constructing a select and excluding duplicates

2004-11-04 Thread Rob Kudyba
The email addresses from source1 that are also not part of all of the following sources (source2, source4, and source6). What I meant was there are addresses that are duplicate and exist in source 1, source 2, source 3, et. al. I want to only include the distincts from all of them, in other wor

Re: constructing a select and excluding duplicates

2004-11-04 Thread SGreen
So what are you really after: All email addresses that are unique (not multiple-sourced)? The email addresses from source1 that are duplicated from no other sources? The email addresses from source1 that are not from any of the following sources (source2, source4, or source6)? The email addresse

constructing a select and excluding duplicates

2004-11-04 Thread Rob Kudyba
I am trying to construct a SELECT statement on distinct email addresses. Our DB has emails entered by various sources and there are duplicate addresses based on the source. Using sample table names and sources here is what I have: SELECT DISTINCT email_address FROM 'email_table' WHERE SOURCE