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Subject: Is there anyway to do this?
From: Wei Weng <wweng@kencast.com>
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I have a table 

               Table "Users"
  Column   |          Type          | Modifiers 
-----------+------------------------+-----------
 userid    | character varying(40)  | not null
 username  | character varying(64)  | 

I want to get all the distinct first character of all usernames. And do
it in a way that is the most portable to MS SQL server.

Is there anyway?

Thanks

-- 
Wei Weng
Network Software Engineer
KenCast Inc.