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Asked: 2026-06-15T17:35:31+00:00

I’ve got the following table, and I’m trying experiment with it. Here is the

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I’ve got the following table, and I’m trying experiment with it. Here is the table:

Mobiles:
– id: ‘1’, productname: ‘Apple’
– id: ‘2’, productname: ‘Apple’
– id: ‘3’, productname: ‘Samsung’
– id: ‘4’, productname: ‘Alcatel phone’
– id: ‘5’, productname: ‘Alcatel’
– id: ‘6’, productname: ‘Blackberry’

I’m am currently using this MySQL query to not display the duplicates:

SELECT DISTINCT productname FROM mobiles

And the result displays:

  • Apple
  • Samsung
  • Alcatel Phone
  • Alcatel
  • Blackberry

Now my question is if their is anything I can add to my mysql to search the database to check the the first word is not a duplicate or something along those lines? Or if more than 8 characters are the same regard it as a duplicate? So that I can get my data to display as follows:

  • Apple
  • Samsung
  • Alcatel
  • Blackberry

I hope Someone out there would be able to help me out with this question.

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  1. Editorial Team

    MySQL’s SUBSTRING_INDEX to the rescue:

    SELECT DISTINCT SUBSTRING_INDEX(productname,' ',1) FROM mobiles
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