How do I use SELECT GROUP BY in DataTable.Select(Expression)?

Question

I try to remove the duplicate rows by select a first row from every group. For Example

PK     Col1     Col2
1        A        B
2        A        B
3        C        C
4        C        C

I want a return:

PK     Col1     Col2
1        A        B
3        C        C

I tried following code but it didn't work:

DataTable dt = GetSampleDataTable(); //Get the table above.
dt = dt.Select("SELECT MIN(PK), Col1, Col2 GROUP BY Col1, Col2);

Answer 1

DataTable's Select method only supports simple filtering expressions like {field} = {value}. It does not support complex expressions, let alone SQL/Linq statements.

You can, however, use Linq extension methods to extract a collection of DataRows then create a new DataTable.

dt = dt.AsEnumerable()
       .GroupBy(r => new {Col1 = r["Col1"], Col2 = r["Col2"]})
       .Select(g => g.OrderBy(r => r["PK"]).First())
       .CopyToDataTable();

Answer 2

dt = dt.AsEnumerable().GroupBy(r => r.Field<int>("ID")).Select(g => g.First()).CopyToDataTable();

Answer 3

Tim Schmelter's answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/8472044/26877

public DataTable GroupBy(string i_sGroupByColumn, string i_sAggregateColumn, DataTable i_dSourceTable)
{

    DataView dv = new DataView(i_dSourceTable);

    //getting distinct values for group column
    DataTable dtGroup = dv.ToTable(true, new string[] { i_sGroupByColumn });

    //adding column for the row count
    dtGroup.Columns.Add("Count", typeof(int));

    //looping thru distinct values for the group, counting
    foreach (DataRow dr in dtGroup.Rows) {
        dr["Count"] = i_dSourceTable.Compute("Count(" + i_sAggregateColumn + ")", i_sGroupByColumn + " = '" + dr[i_sGroupByColumn] + "'");
    }

    //returning grouped/counted result
    return dtGroup;
}

Example:

DataTable desiredResult = GroupBy("TeamID", "MemberID", dt);

Answer 4

dt.AsEnumerable()
    .GroupBy(r => new { Col1 = r["Col1"], Col2 = r["Col2"] })
    .Select(g =>
    {
        var row = dt.NewRow();

        row["PK"] = g.Min(r => r.Field<int>("PK"));
        row["Col1"] = g.Key.Col1;
        row["Col2"] = g.Key.Col2;

        return row;

    })
    .CopyToDataTable();

Answer 5

This solution sort by Col1 and group by Col2. Then extract value of Col2 and display it in a mbox.

var grouped = from DataRow dr in dt.Rows orderby dr["Col1"] group dr by dr["Col2"];
string x = "";
foreach (var k in grouped) x += (string)(k.ElementAt(0)["Col2"]) + Environment.NewLine;
MessageBox.Show(x);