Question

I hope I can explain this clearly:
I have two tables with the following structures:

TABLE A{id, source, url}
TABLE A2{matchid,matchsource,matchurl,country,lang}

and I have a join on them:

TABLE B{id,source,url,matchid,matchsource,matchurl,country,lang}

Table B is a join of A with A2 where for each record in A there are matching records with the same url in A2. Now I would like to display the data as follows
eg

100 google www.google.com 200 google blog  www.gblog.com USA english
                          201 google news  www.gnews.com USA english

instead of

100 google www.google.com 200 google blog  www.gblog.com USA english
100 google www.google.com 201 google news  www.gnews.com USA english

of which there are hundreds of matching recs.

Is this possible? Since I need to display the records with the first match for each record in table A

Answer 1

You can’t do this in SQL. Sensibly that is.

This is a grouping on the first 3 columns that should be captured in the presentations/client.