MySQL: Select N rows, but with only unique values in one column

Question

Given this data set:

ID  Name            City            Birthyear
1   Egon Spengler   New York        1957
2   Mac Taylor      New York        1955
3   Sara         


        

Answer 1

Not pretty but should work also with multiple people with the same dob:

Test data:

select id, name, city, dob 
into people
from
(select 1 id,'Egon Spengler' name, 'New York' city , 1957 dob
union all select 2, 'Mac Taylor','New York', 1955
union all select 3, 'Sarah Connor','Los Angeles', 1959
union all select 4, 'Jean-Luc Picard','La Barre', 2305
union all select 5, 'Ellen Ripley','Nostromo', 2092
union all select 6, 'James T. Kirk','Riverside', 2233
union all select 7, 'Henry Jones','Chicago', 1899
union all select 8, 'Blah','New York', 1955) a

Query:

select 
    * 
from 
    people p
    left join people p1
    ON 
        p.city = p1.city
        and (p.dob > p1.dob and p.id <> p1.id)
        or (p.dob = p1.dob and p.id > p1.id)
where
    p1.id is null
order by 
    p.dob