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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:03:59+00:00

If we start with the following simple SQL statement which works. SELECT sor.FPARTNO, sum(sor.FUNETPRICE)

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If we start with the following simple SQL statement which works. 

SELECT sor.FPARTNO, sum(sor.FUNETPRICE)
FROM sorels sor
GROUP BY sor.FPARTNO

FPartNo is the part number and the Funetprice is obviously the net price. The user also wants the description and this causes a problem. If I follow up with this: 

SELECT sor.FPARTNO, sor.fdesc, sum(sor.FUNETPRICE)
FROM sorels sor
GROUP BY sor.FPARTNO, sor.fdesc

If there are multiple variations of the description for that part number, typically very small variations in the text, then I don’t actually aggregate on the part number. Make sense?

I’m sure this must be simple. How can I return the first fdesc that corresponds to the part number? Any of the description variations would suffice as they are almost entirely identical.

Edit: The description is a text field.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you can’t upgrade to SQL Server 2005 for a (max) type 🙂

    Try this. SUBSTRING works on blobs, but returns varchar for text. So the aggregate should work and you lose some data

    SELECT
   sor.FPARTNO, MIN(SUBSTRING(sor.fdesc, 1, 8000)), sum(sor.FUNETPRICE)
FROM
    sorels sor
GROUP BY
    sor.FPARTNO, SUBSTRING(sor.fdesc, 1, 8000)
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