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Asked: 2026-05-11T08:22:29+00:00

I have a database table. It has several hundred entries and each entry is

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I have a database table. It has several hundred entries and each entry is timestamped. I’m looking to only output each day and not have it duplicate any days.

Data:
2009-02-04 06:20:27
2009-02-04 06:20:27
2009-02-05 06:20:27
2009-02-07 06:20:27
2009-02-07 06:20:27
2009-02-07 06:20:27

Output should only be (time is irrelevant):
2009-02-04 06:20:27
2009-02-05 06:20:27
2009-02-07 06:20:27

What is the best way to accomplish this? Should I really be cycling through each row and comparing one from another? Just doesn’t seem efficient. Any ideas/tips?

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  1. You would want to do this on the database level using the mysql DISTINCT keyword:

    SELECT DISTINCT date FROM table

    This will make it so if there are duplicate dates, only one is returned. Read more about it here.

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