Question

I want to get a subset of a table, here’s the example:

1   A
2   A
3   B
4   B
5   C
6   D
7   D
8   D

I want to get the unique record, but with the smallest id:

1   A
3   B
5   C
6   D

How can I write the SQL in SQL Server? Thanks!

Answer 1

select min(id), othercol
from thetable
group by othercol

and maybe with

order by othercol

… at the end if thats important