[Zope] converting SQL select list into unique values

Darcy Clark darcyc@engin.umich.edu
Fri, 07 Jan 2000 17:20:45 -0500


I have a non-unique column in a MySQL table - I have looked hard for a
way in SQL to convert the results of a SELECT into a list of unique
values. I know how to define a table at CREATE to have UNIQUE columns
but this is not what I want to do.

For example :

If the result of the SELECT is :
1, 3, 3, 4, 2, 6, 8, 9, 4, 2, 3, 6

I would like to return:
1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9

i.e. only the unique values of the list.

any pointers ? if SQL can't do this, can Zope ? (I'm sure Zope can do
it, it can do everything :)

Darcy
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