mysql query: SELECT DISTINCT column1, GROUP BY column2

Question

Right now I have the following query:

SELECT name, COUNT(name), time, price, ip, SUM(price) 
  FROM tablename 
 WHERE time >= $yesterday 
   AND time <         


        

Answer 1

Replacing FROM tablename with FROM (SELECT DISTINCT * FROM tablename) should give you the result you want (ignoring duplicated rows) for example:

SELECT name, COUNT(*)
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT * FROM Table1) AS T1
GROUP BY name

Result for your test data:

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