Help eliminate dups in a view

it depends ...

post the ddl structures for the contacts and inventory tables (and any others)
and specify how they should be joined to get the "latest" coach..

select contacts.*, inventory.* from contacts
inner join inventory on contacts.contactID = inventory.contactID
inner join (select max(uniqueID) uniqueID from inventory group by contactID, inventoryID) tmp
on tmp.inventoryID = inventory.inventoryID


In this query I'm assuming inventoryID is the code for each piece of inventory.  All coaches would have the same number, all of each item would have the same number.  This would get the most recent of each piece of inventory for each person.

CREATE VIEW dbo.vContactsAndCoaches
AS
SELECT     dbo.Inventory.StockNo, dbo.Inventory.[Year], dbo.Inventory.Make, dbo.Inventory.Model, dbo.Inventory.ModelNo, dbo.Inventory.Loc,
                      dbo.Inventory.Retail, dbo.Inventory.SerialNo, dbo.Inventory.SoldDate, dbo.Inventory.Body, dbo.Locations.Location, dbo.LookingFor.MinPrice,
                      dbo.LookingFor.MaxPrice, dbo.LookingFor.Financing, dbo.States.StateAndAbr, dbo.Contacts.FirstName, dbo.Contacts.MiddleName,
                      dbo.Contacts.LastName, dbo.Contacts.Salutation, dbo.Contacts.SpouseFirstName, dbo.Contacts.SpouseMiddleName, dbo.Contacts.SpouseLastName,
                      dbo.Contacts.SpouseSalutation, dbo.Contacts.Address, dbo.Contacts.City, dbo.Contacts.State, dbo.Contacts.Zip, dbo.Contacts.Country,
                      dbo.Contacts.County, dbo.Contacts.Address2, dbo.Contacts.City2, dbo.Contacts.State2, dbo.Contacts.Zip2, dbo.Contacts.Country2,
                      dbo.Contacts.HomePhone, dbo.Contacts.WorkPhone, dbo.Contacts.CellPhone, dbo.Contacts.Fax, dbo.Contacts.PhoneExt, dbo.Contacts.Email,
                      dbo.Contacts.Email2, dbo.Contacts.DateEntered, dbo.Contacts.LastUpdated, dbo.Contacts.ReferredBy, dbo.Contacts.LocationID,
                      dbo.Contacts.LastResult, dbo.Contacts.MergeDate, dbo.Contacts.[TimeStamp], dbo.Contacts.Origin, dbo.Contacts.Birthday,
                      dbo.Contacts.SpouseBirthday, dbo.Contacts.Anniversary, dbo.Contacts.Picture, dbo.Contacts.InterestedinID, dbo.Contacts.Title, dbo.Contacts.Company,
                      dbo.Contacts.LastResults, dbo.Contacts.TradeIn, dbo.Contacts.Confirmed, dbo.Contacts.Salesperson, dbo.Contacts.Salesperson2,
                      dbo.Contacts.ContactID, Users_1.FullName AS EnteredBy, Users_2.FullName AS UpdatedBy, dbo.Contacts.FullName AS ContactFullName,
                      Users_3.FullName AS SalespersonFull, dbo.Contacts.heard, dbo.Contacts.BC, Users_4.FullName AS SalespersonFull2
FROM         dbo.Users Users_3 RIGHT OUTER JOIN
                      dbo.Contacts LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      dbo.Users Users_4 ON dbo.Contacts.Salesperson2 = Users_4.UserID ON Users_3.UserID = dbo.Contacts.Salesperson LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      dbo.Users Users_2 ON dbo.Contacts.UpdatedBy = Users_2.UserID LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      dbo.Users Users_1 ON dbo.Contacts.EnteredBy = Users_1.UserID LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      dbo.States ON dbo.Contacts.State = dbo.States.StateAbr LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      dbo.LookingFor ON dbo.Contacts.ContactID = dbo.LookingFor.ContactID LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      dbo.Locations ON dbo.Contacts.LocationID = dbo.Locations.LocationID LEFT OUTER JOIN
                      dbo.Inventory ON dbo.Contacts.ContactID = dbo.Inventory.ContactID

This is the statement as it stands currently.. the stockno on the vehicle is the primaryId for the inventory table