Question

I would like to know whether its possible to get a list of distinct values in a SQLite Column without ordering them.

I tried following query. But it automatically orders the unique text into ascending order.

SELECT DISTINCT column FROM table;

Ex.

Column

Mathew
Mathew
John
John
John
Numbers
Numbers

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Result

John
Mathew
Numbers

But I would like it not to be ordered. Would like it in Mathew, John, Numbers

Thanks.

Answer 1

What order do you want?

If you want to get the values in the order of first appearance you can do:

select distinct column
  from table
 order by min(rowid);