SQL Group By and min (MySQL)

Question

I have the following SQL:

select code, distance from places;    

The output is below:

CODE    DISTANCE            LOCATION
         


        

Answer 1

You can try to do a nested lookup between the minimum grouping and the original table.

This seems to do the trick

SELECT MinPlaces.Code, MinPlaces.Distance, Places.Location 
FROM Places INNER JOIN
(
    SELECT Code, MIN(Distance) AS Distance
    FROM Places
    GROUP BY Code
    HAVING MIN(Distance) > 0 
) AS MinPlaces ON Places.Code = MinPlaces.Code AND Places.Distance = MinPlaces.Distance
ORDER BY MinPlaces.Distance ASC

UPDATE: Tested using the following:

DECLARE @Places TABLE ( Code INT, Distance FLOAT, Location VARCHAR(50) )

INSERT INTO @Places (Code, Distance, Location)
VALUES
(106, 386.895834130068, 'New York, NY'),
(80, 2116.6747774121, 'Washington, DC'),
(80, 2117.61925131453, 'Alexandria, VA'),
(106, 2563.46708627407, 'Charlotte, NC')

SELECT MinPlaces.Code, MinPlaces.Distance, P.Location 
FROM @Places P INNER JOIN
(
    SELECT Code, MIN(Distance) AS Distance
    FROM @Places
    GROUP BY Code
    HAVING MIN(Distance) > 0 
) AS MinPlaces ON P.Code = MinPlaces.Code AND P.Distance = MinPlaces.Distance
ORDER BY MinPlaces.Distance ASC

And this yields: