Subject DISTINCT on only one field?
Author Joe Martinez
Here's my situation:

I have a table with addresses:

Name
Address
City
State
Zip

I want to do a select that only picks up distinct values of the Address and
Zip fields, but I want the select to include the rest of the fields. If
the same value pair of Address and Zip appears more than once, I only want
one of the records, even if the rest of the fields differ. I don't care
which one of the records I get. Example:

Joe Smith
123 Main St.
Anytown
CA
12345

Joseph Smith
123 Main St.
Mytown
CA
12345

Cheryl Smith
123 Main St.
Anytown
CA
12345

In this case, I want only one of those records (I don't care which
one). But, I want the query to give me all the fields.

I was trying to think of a way to do it with DISTINCT. The problem is that
if I select all the fields, they ALL are included in the DISTINCT, and I'll
get all 3 records. If I only put Address and Zip in the select, I ony get
one record, but I don't have the rest of the fields.

Is there some other way that I can achieve this?

Thanks,
Joe