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SQL Tutorial for Beginners
SQL Tutorial for Beginners
SQL Distinct
Distinct is a keyword used with SELECT to return only unique values. Usually, you want to get all unique values, but there are duplicate values stored in the tables.
Check the difference: in our table, there are 18 records at all, and each record has a singer. You'll retrieve the 18 singers with the next query:
SELECT singer FROM songs
But some singers, for example, AC/DC, occur multiple times. To retrieve the unique singers, use the DISTINCT keyword before the singer
column:
SELECT DISTINCT singer FROM songs
Now there are no repeated values, so you can see that the total number of unique singers
is 10.
Task
Find all unique title
values in songs
.
Thanks for your feedback!
SQL Distinct
Distinct is a keyword used with SELECT to return only unique values. Usually, you want to get all unique values, but there are duplicate values stored in the tables.
Check the difference: in our table, there are 18 records at all, and each record has a singer. You'll retrieve the 18 singers with the next query:
SELECT singer FROM songs
But some singers, for example, AC/DC, occur multiple times. To retrieve the unique singers, use the DISTINCT keyword before the singer
column:
SELECT DISTINCT singer FROM songs
Now there are no repeated values, so you can see that the total number of unique singers
is 10.
Task
Find all unique title
values in songs
.
Thanks for your feedback!
SQL Distinct
Distinct is a keyword used with SELECT to return only unique values. Usually, you want to get all unique values, but there are duplicate values stored in the tables.
Check the difference: in our table, there are 18 records at all, and each record has a singer. You'll retrieve the 18 singers with the next query:
SELECT singer FROM songs
But some singers, for example, AC/DC, occur multiple times. To retrieve the unique singers, use the DISTINCT keyword before the singer
column:
SELECT DISTINCT singer FROM songs
Now there are no repeated values, so you can see that the total number of unique singers
is 10.
Task
Find all unique title
values in songs
.
Thanks for your feedback!
Distinct is a keyword used with SELECT to return only unique values. Usually, you want to get all unique values, but there are duplicate values stored in the tables.
Check the difference: in our table, there are 18 records at all, and each record has a singer. You'll retrieve the 18 singers with the next query:
SELECT singer FROM songs
But some singers, for example, AC/DC, occur multiple times. To retrieve the unique singers, use the DISTINCT keyword before the singer
column:
SELECT DISTINCT singer FROM songs
Now there are no repeated values, so you can see that the total number of unique singers
is 10.
Task
Find all unique title
values in songs
.