In performance wise distinct is good or group by is good?
eg:select name from emp group by name;
select distinct name from emp;
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Answer Posted / ghorban adabi
I have test DISTINCT and GROUP BY query on a table in my
site db with 7800 record. the results that turned GROUP BY
was faster than DISTINCT!!!
GROUP BY result -> Query took 0.0094 sec
DISTINCT result -> Query took 0.0133 sec
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