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When you say duplicates, do you mean exact duplicates? SELECT DISTINCT * is going to give you every record that isn't an exact duplicate of another. If just one column has a different value between two records you'll get both records. Have you made sure that PRPBHNODUP is empty before the insert? Charles Wilt -- iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America ph: 513-573-4343 fax: 513-398-1121
-----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:59 AM To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion Subject: SQL INSERT Duplicates Why won't this only insert non-duplicate records? insert INTO MICHAEL/PRPBHNODUP SELECT DISTINCT * FROM prpbh I get all the records, even though I can clearly see dups... -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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