I have the following data
COL-1 COL-2
1 0TY/OK
1 0TY/OK
1 0TY/OK
1 0TY/OK
1 0TY/OK
2 2KP/L
2 2KP/L
2 2KP/L
2 2KP/L
2 2KP/L
3 7U5/2M
3 7U5/2M
3 7U5/2M
3 7U5/2M
And i want to construct a select query to retrieve that data in the output below
COL-1 COL-2 COL-3
1 0TY/OK 0TY/OK
1 0TY/OK 2KP/L
1 0TY/OK 7U5/2M
1 0TY/OK
1 0TY/OK
2 2KP/L
2 2KP/L
2 2KP/L
2 2KP/L
2 2KP/L
3 7U5/2M
3 7U5/2M
3 7U5/2M
3 7U5/2M
I want COL3 to return the distinct values of COL2
Using SELECT COL1, COL2, DISTINCT COL2 AS COL3 FROM MYTable
does not work is SQL SERVER
Although I'm sure that some SQL wizard will be able to construct a way to do this, I feel the need to point out that conceptually this doesn't make sense - the values in the rows of column 3 are completely unrelated to the row values in columns 1 and 2.
Can you not simply return the distinct values of COL2 in a separate query?
SELECT DISTINCT COL2 FROM MyTable
(Note that you can return multiple resultsets from a single SQL query)