Display each DISTINCT Field Value only once using loop

Question

SELECT listTitle, listLength, listCmt, listDt, mBCFName, mBCLName, moAmt, moDtOff
FROM User U, Listing L, Merchant M, MerchantOffer MO
WHERE U.uID = L.uID
and L.listID =         


        

Answer 1

It sounds to me like you want to print listTitle as a group heading above the relevant comments.

One way to do it would be to keep track of listTitle of the previous row, and then only print it if there's a difference with the current row. Of course, you'd have to make sure your result set is ordered by listTitle.

Another way would be to have one query that gets all data for that group heading, then another query that gets the contents of the group.

It is also probably possible to do it in the query, but that will be tricky since you want the first record with that listTitle to have a value for listTitle and the others to have null - until the next listTitle that's different.

Answer 2

On the basis that every field is the same (listTitle, listLength, listCmt, listDt, mBCFName, mBCLName, moAmt, moDtOff) the change is easiest in the SQL

SELECT DISTINCT listTitle, listLength, listCmt, listDt, mBCFName, mBCLName, moAmt, moDtOff

If it's not the same, then how would the code be able to decide which New Balance 574 Men's Shoes to display?

Answer 3

This is not that easy - the question is what to show for the other field (for example the "mBCFName" field - "Amanda" OR "John")?

use the "Group by" SQL statement and then define the rules (max,min,avg, GROUP_CONCAT ...) to select the other rows - Example:

SELECT listTitle, min(listLength), min(listCmt), min(listDt), GROUP_CONCAT(mBCFName), min(mBCLName), min(moAmt), min(moDtOff)
FROM User U, Listing L, Merchant M, MerchantOffer MO
WHERE U.uID = L.uID
  and L.listID = MO.listID
  and M.mID = MO.mId
GROUP BY listTitle
ORDER BY listDt DESC;