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
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Answer 1

select name,totalpoints
from table
group by name
order by totalpoints desc

Answer 2

Very easy. use following query:

SELECT totalpoints, name
FROM table_name
GROUP BY name
ORDER BY totalpoints DESC

Answer 3

select distinct name,totalpoints from table

Answer 4

Please use DISTINCT keyword in your query to avoid duplicate entries

Answer 5

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