Need a Distinct Column in my inner join statement

[kaden712]

I am using ASP with MS Access Database to create a photo album
there are two tables in the database tblGallery and tblPics each table has the following columns

tblGallery = [galleryID] [galleryName] [galleryDate]
tblPics = [picID] [picCat] [picName]

tblGallery.galleryID = tblPics.picCat in order to create a relational Database and have created the following query for my recordset

SELECT galleryID, picCat, galleryName, galleryDate, picID, picName FROM tblGallery INNER JOIN tblPics ON tblPics.picCat = tblGallery.galleryID

My aim now is to display the recordset in a repeating table but need to remove any records returned with the same galleryID

I have been searching for two days and although I have found a lot of similar issues which suggest using DISTINCT, GROUP BY etc... I have not yet been able to find a solution that works. I am now running out of time for my deadline so any feedback/help would be highly appreciated
Cheers
Kaden712

[hhamdan]

What are you trying to do?

[kaden712]

The idea here is that it returns data where there is only one instance of the galleryID (doesn't matter which one) I then use this as a link to a detail page that dispalys all records for that galleryID (I have got this working fine)
Cheers
Kaden712

[nrvinayak]

If you are not going to show the details in the initial page, you can just retrieve a distinct value of galleryId and then use them to link to detail page.

eg.

SELECT distinct galleryID
FROM tblGallery INNER JOIN tblPics ON tblGallery.galleryID=tblPics.picCat;

Hope this suggestion is of help to you.