SELECT DISTINCT on one column
The simplest solution would be to use a subquery for finding the minimum ID matching your query. In the subquery you use GROUP BY
instead of DISTINCT
:
SELECT * FROM [TestData] WHERE [ID] IN (
SELECT MIN([ID]) FROM [TestData]
WHERE [SKU] LIKE 'FOO-%'
GROUP BY [PRODUCT]
)
Assuming that you're on SQL Server 2005 or greater, you can use a CTE with ROW_NUMBER():
SELECT *
FROM (SELECT ID, SKU, Product,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY PRODUCT ORDER BY ID) AS RowNumber
FROM MyTable
WHERE SKU LIKE 'FOO%') AS a
WHERE a.RowNumber = 1
try this:
SELECT
t.*
FROM TestData t
INNER JOIN (SELECT
MIN(ID) as MinID
FROM TestData
WHERE SKU LIKE 'FOO-%'
) dt ON t.ID=dt.MinID
EDIT
once the OP corrected his samle output (previously had only ONE result row, now has all shown), this is the correct query:
declare @TestData table (ID int, sku char(6), product varchar(15))
insert into @TestData values (1 , 'FOO-23' ,'Orange')
insert into @TestData values (2 , 'BAR-23' ,'Orange')
insert into @TestData values (3 , 'FOO-24' ,'Apple')
insert into @TestData values (4 , 'FOO-25' ,'Orange')
--basically the same as @Aaron Alton's answer:
SELECT
dt.ID, dt.SKU, dt.Product
FROM (SELECT
ID, SKU, Product, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY PRODUCT ORDER BY ID) AS RowID
FROM @TestData
WHERE SKU LIKE 'FOO-%'
) AS dt
WHERE dt.RowID=1
ORDER BY dt.ID
SELECT min (id) AS 'ID', min(sku) AS 'SKU', Product
FROM TestData
WHERE sku LIKE 'FOO%' -- If you want only the sku that matchs with FOO%
GROUP BY product
ORDER BY 'ID'