Question

Please Consider the following table :

As you can see the Name column has some repeated values with is a group like
I need to have a query so I can fetch just the first row of a group something like this:

Please take in to account that I need the fastest way because the real table is not like that and could have lots of data to be filter that way.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

this depends greatly on how you define ‘the first in the group’

something like this:

select name, min(code)
from mytable
group by name
order by name