Unique vs Distinct keyword in Oracle

Question

I am a bit confused about the uses of these words. I have a table with he following columns: SITE, LAT, LONG, NAME, ......

I want results with unique (or is it disti

Answer 1

I always like to see a count of how many of each unique item there is so I would:

select lat,long, count(lat) from table group by lat,long but thats just me