Question

I have written a query which involves joins and finally returns the below result,

Name   ID
AAA    1
BBB    1
BBB    6
CCC   1
CCC   6
DDD   6
EEE    1  

But I want my result to be still filtered in such a way that, the duplicate values in the first column should be ignored which has lesser value. ie, CCC and BBB which are duplicates with value 1 should be removed. The result should be

AAA    1
BBB    6
CCC   6
DDD   6
EEE    1  

Note: I have a condition called Where (ID = '6' or ID = '1'), is there any way to improve this condition saying Where ID = 6 or ID = 1 (if no 6 is available in that table)”

Answer 1

You will likely want to add:

GROUP BY name

to the bottom of your query and change ID to MAX(ID) in your SELECT statement

It is hard to give a more specific answer without seeing the query you’ve already written.