Hi Chandan,

In my opinion, distinct clause may not solve your duplicate issue. However if you try with following query, you might get unique values:

select * from testtable where rowid not in(select min(rowid) from testtable)
group by cust_id, reg_nbr

Regards,
Vijay


-----Original Message-----
From: Chandra Guptan Bose [mailto:oracledba-ezmlmshield-x79494709.[Email address protected]
Sent: 28 October 2005 16:52
To: LazyDBA Discussion
Subject: How to Select the Unique records

Hi all,

I have duplicates in one table where the required field is not PK bu i
want the unique records in that

reg_nbr cust_id
--------- ----------
100 sd
200 er
300 sd

i want unique records on cust_id as it goes as a PK in the target table.

Chandra Guptan Bose,
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