SQL How to remove duplicates within select query?

Question

I have a table which looks like that:

As You see, there are some date duplicates, so how t

Answer 1

You mention that there are date duplicates, but it appears they're quite unique down to the precision of seconds.

Can you clarify what precision of date you start considering dates duplicate - day, hour, minute?

In any case, you'll probably want to floor your datetime field. You didn't indicate which field is preferred when removing duplicates, so this query will prefer the last name in alphabetical order.

 SELECT MAX(owner_name), 
        --floored to the second
        dateadd(second,datediff(second,'2000-01-01',start_date),'2000-01-01') AS StartDate
 From   MyTable
 GROUP BY dateadd(second,datediff(second,'2000-01-01',start_date),'2000-01-01')