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I have this website where I would allow the user to effectively parse the mysql database. I would like to present on the website the list of possible unique values from each column and hit an execute button to retrieve the data.
Is there a way to extract the unique values from the columns in a database? quickly? Before I was thinking of having some mapping file created before hand. I would ideally like this system to be fast. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Like this?
select DISTINCT [column] from [table];