Question

I am trying to get unique values from a table in oracle via sql. The table looks like this.

Table: ABC with columns name and value.

NAME Value
AA   10
B    40
CC   50
AA   70
DD   80
CC   90
EE   100
FF   120
GG   130
H    150
EE   170
I    180
J    200
K    210
L    300
GG   320

I want to grab the unique values from ABC for the column name and preferable the ones which have lower value number e.g. AA comes twice so i want to grab AA once but with the one with lower number in value.

SELECT DISTINCT
    (NAME),
    VALUE
FROM
    ABC
ORDER BY
    NAME ASC;

Please help. Thanks

Answer 1

SELECT 
    NAME       AS NAME  ,
    MIN(VALUE) AS VALUE
FROM ABC
GROUP BY NAME
ORDER BY NAME ASC;