Re: DISTINCTROW doesn't yield off unique rows in one of my columns

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On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:56:01 -0700, "ishleepy tin c',)" <ishleepy tin
c',)@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi, I need a Filter1 column that gives out unique sets of characters but the
>DISTINCTROW command can't seem to be able to filter it fine, I'm still seeing
>multiple rows in Filter1 column having exactly the same set of characters.

Use DISTINCT instead of DISTINCTROW. DISTINCT looks only at the fields
in the SELECT clause; DISTINCTROW looks at all fields, selected or
not.

John W. Vinson[MVP]
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