Question

I have a table called ‘Audit’ in SQL Server 2005 like this:

Name    | Last Logged On Date
--------| -----------------------
Joe     | 2012-02-01 00:00:00.000
Joe     | 2012-02-02 00:00:00.000
Bloggs  | 2012-03-01 00:00:00.000
Bloggs  | 2012-03-02 00:00:00.000

I want to only get the distinct on the first time the person logged on.

So in other words, I want to return:

Name    | First Logged On Date
--------| -----------------------
Joe     | 2012-02-01 00:00:00.000
Bloggs  | 2012-03-01 00:00:00.000

How would I achieve this?

Help!!!

Answer 1

If I understand your question right, it should work for you

SELECT Name, MIN([Last Logged On Date]) AS [First Logged On Date]
FROM Audit
GROUP BY Name