How do i suppress repetitive values in the result set?

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I am joining the closed tickets table to itself for the purpose of showing devices that had trouble tickets in March and in April.See sample result set:PRINEID ClosedFirstMonth ClosedSecondMonth FirstOutage SecondOutage
GWAN-ARGBUE0282-2011715E001 2014-03-14 00:00:00.000 2014-04-08 00:00:00.000 16 247
GWAN-ARGBUE0282-2011715E001 2014-03-14 00:00:00.000 2014-04-17 00:00:00.000 16 454
GWAN-ARGBUE0282-2011715E001 2014-03-14 00:00:00.000 2014-04-25 00:00:00.000 16 212
GWAN-ARGBUE0282-2011715E001 2014-03-18 00:00:00.000 2014-04-08 00:00:00.000 145 247
GWAN-ARGBUE0282-2011715E001 2014-03-18 00:00:00.000 2014-04-17 00:00:00.000 145 454
GWAN-ARGBUE0282-2011715E001 2014-03-18 00:00:00.000 2014-04-25 00:00:00.000 145 212
GWAN-ARGBUE0324-2516241E001 2014-03-18 00:00:00.000 2014-04-23 00:00:00.000 31 50
GWAN-ARGBUE0324-2516241E001 2014-03-12 00:00:00.000 2014-04-23 00:00:00.000 1 50

What I have tried:

Joined the closed tickets table to itself (aliases a & b) using a date range for the two months involved trying both inner and left outer joins.

Posted 15-Feb-16 6:04am

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ZurdoDev 15-Feb-16 12:15pm

One way is to use DISTINCT. Where exactly are you stuck?

Member 12328879 15-Feb-16 12:39pm

DISTINCT does not work in this instance as each output record is distinct. considering looping logic (WHILE..., etc.) on the PRINEID field which repeats.

ZurdoDev 15-Feb-16 12:40pm

If each output record is distinct then you don't have repetitive values. You need to be more clear on what you need.

Richard Deeming 15-Feb-16 13:43pm

We can't see the structure of your tables; we can't see the data in those tables; and we can't see the query you're running.

We have no information with which to help you.

Create a small SQL Fiddle[^] to demonstrate the problem. Then click "Improve question" and add the link to your SQL Fiddle to the question.

GuyThiebaut 17-Feb-16 8:23am

GWAN-ARGBUE0282-2011715E001 2014-03-14 00:00:00.000 2014-04-08 00:00:00.000 16 247
GWAN-ARGBUE0282-2011715E001 2014-03-14 00:00:00.000 2014-04-17 00:00:00.000 16 454

The two values above are different - your query is behaving correctly.

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