I recently got into a situation where I wanted to know how many distinct values were in a column of a table. It would be nice to be able to use the following:
SELECT COUNT (DISTINCT column-name) FROM table-name
Can DISTINCT be added as a keyword for queries?
If you just want to know how many distinct values there are in a column, you could do something like
query("SELECT column-name FROM table-name GROUP BY column-name");
int distinctValues = getquerymatchcount();
Of course that only works in some pretty specific cases but it may be enough to help you go forward for now.
Thanks @Mischa Spelt, I didn't understand exactly how GROUP BY works, but that should help a lot
How can I use DISTINCT to list out distinct values from the column into another table?
Already tried the following code and got the error "time: 0.000000 exception: FlexScript exception: Could not parse query SELECT DISTINCT ModelName FROM ProductionOrder at MODEL:/Tools/UserCommands/WriteStationMaps/code"
string sql4="SELECT DISTINCT ModelName \
FROM ProductionOrder";
Table result4=Table.query(sql4);
result4.cloneTo(Table("UniqueModelNames"));
DISTINCT isn's a keyword you can use - as it mentions on this page and in the
documentation. Use:
SELCT ModelName From ProductionOrder GROUP BY ModelName
In future please post a new question.
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