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From: Edward W. Rouse <erouse@comsquared.com>
To: 'Nathan Mailg' <nathanmailg@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: removing duplicates and using sort
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 10:04:40 -0400
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Change the order by to order by lastname, firstname, refid, appldate

 

From: pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org [mailto:pgsql-sql-owner@postgresql.org]
On Behalf Of Nathan Mailg
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2013 10:36 PM
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: [SQL] removing duplicates and using sort

 

I'm using 8.4.17 and I have the following query working, but it's not quite
what I need:

 

SELECT DISTINCT ON (refid) id, refid, lastname, firstname, appldate
        FROM appl WHERE lastname ILIKE 'Williamson%' AND firstname ILIKE
'd%'
        GROUP BY refid, id, lastname, firstname, appldate ORDER BY refid,
appldate DESC;

 

I worked on this awhile and is as close as I could get. So this returns rows
as you'd expect, except I need to somehow modify this query so it returns
the rows ordered by lastname, then firstname.

 

I'm using distinct so I get rid of duplicates in the table where refid (an
integer) is used as the common id that ties like records together. In other
words, I'm using it to get only the most recent appldate (a date) for each
group of refid's that match the lastname, firstname where clause.

 

I just need the rows returned from the query above to be sorted by lastname,
then firstname.

 

Hope I explained this well enough. Please let me know if you need more info.

 

Thanks!

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