Getting filtered results with subquery
- by josepv
I have a table with something like the following:
ID Name Color
1 Bob Blue
2 John Yellow
1 Bob Green
3 Sara Red
3 Sara Green
What I would like to do is return a filtered list of results whereby the following data is returned:
ID Name Color
1 Bob Blue
2 John Yellow
3 Sara Red
i.e. I would like to return 1 row per user. (I do not mind which row is returned for the particular user - I just need that the [ID] is unique.) I have something already that works but is really slow where I create a temp table adding all the ID's and then using a "OUTER APPLY" selecting the top 1 from the same table, i.e.
CREATE TABLE #tb
(
[ID] [int]
)
INSERT INTO #tb
select distinct [ID] from MyTable
select
T1.[ID],
T2.[Name],
T2.Color
from
#tb T1
OUTER APPLY
(
SELECT TOP 1 * FROM MyTable T2 WHERE T2.[ID] = T1.[ID]
) AS V2
DROP TABLE #tb
Can somebody suggest how I may improve it?
Thanks
