Delete repeated results from MySQL query

Question

A MySQL query retrieves:

totalpoints --  name 
55 -- John Doe
55 -- John Doe
55 -- John Doe
55 -- John Doe
55 -- John Doe
21 -- Jean London
21 -- Jean London
13         


        

Answer 1

What about using DISTINCT? Seems pretty easy... But you actually tried to google it? ou would have found it in no time.