I have no idea what I was thinking. For some reason I was thinking
Distinct wouldn't work, must have been temporarily brain dead. Thanks
for the wake up call.
Gerald L. Clark wrote:
> Chris W wrote:
>> I have two tables, one is a list of users and the other is a list of
>> events for each user. It is a one to many relationship. The event
>> table is pretty simple just an event type and a the date and time of
>> the event in a datetime field.
>> I need a query that shows all events of a certain type for each user,
>> very simple so far. In fact the query I use now is simply,
>> SELECT u.FName, u.LName, e.EventType, DATE(e.DateTime)
>> FROM user u
>> JOIN event e USING(UserID)
>> ORDER BY u.LName, u.FName, e.EventType, e.DateTime
>>
>>
>> The twist comes in that there can be several records for a given user
>> and event type all on the same day, in a case like that, I only want
>> the query to show one record. So I need one record per user per
>> event type per day. The query will strip the time part off of the
>> date time field and only display the date. We don't really care if
>> that event happened 1 or 10 times in one day just that it happened at
>> least once on that day for a user.
>> Chris W
>>
> try DISTINCT.
>
