Posted by othellomy on 01/19/07 06:05

Hi Jim,
Following might work:
select c1, c2, (select top 1 c3 from t1 a where a.c1 = t1.c1 and a.c2 =
t1.c2)
from t1
group by c1, c2

definitely there could be other solutions.

jim wrote:
> I've been searching and trying out SQL statements for hours and I'm
> still having a problem.
>
> I'm querying 3 tables... and I only want the first unique record
> returned.
>
> Currently, the data returned looks like this..............
>
> New York New York A
> New York New York B
> New York New York C
> Los Angeles California A
> Los Angeles California B
> Los Angeles California C
>
>
> I want the select statement to return this instead...
>
> New York New York A
> Los Angeles California A
>
> I'm using MS SQL server.
>
> please help?
>
>
> thanks for your help.

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