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06.11.2008 at 02:33AM PDT, ID: 23475061
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Hi There

I have two tables, businesses and business_categories. Each Business has one to five business categories. Now I want to do a search for all businesses:

SELECT   *
FROM      Businesses b, Business_Categories bc
WHERE    b.id = bc.BusinessId

However, because there are a few categories for each business sometime, the same business name appears a number of times (one for each category)

Is there any way to change my query so that it will only display the business once, even if there are a few categories associated with it? It doesnt matter which one it displays, so long as it is not duplicated.

Many Thanks
Answered By: Chandan_Gowda
Expert Since: 07/18/2005
Accepted Solutions: 65
Computer Expertise: Intermediate
Chandan_Gowda has been an Expert for 3 years 5 months, during which he has posted 274 comments and answered 65 questions. Chandan_Gowda is just one of 2167 experts in the MySQL Server Zone. 1 expert collaborated on this answer, which was graded an "A" by the asker.
 
 
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