I have two table one has employees goals and the other has list of employees. i have to match one to another. Seems easy to do. but in the employee table employees can be entered more than once with more than one way of spelling their names. How can I pick only one name for each ID, it really doesn't matter which one I pick. this is the code i used:
select distinct (etar.EmplKey ), emp.EmplFullName
FROM EmployeeTarget etar
inner join DimEmployee emp on emp.emplkey = etar.emplkey
inner join dimbranch br on br.BranchId = etar.BranchId
where etar.BranchId = 8
this is the results i get:
EmplKey EmplFullName
100260 Ida Patton
101488 Don Sheppard
101488 Donald Sheppard
101489 Teresa Coverdale
103121 Harjinder Aujla
How can I have that Don Sheppard guy listed only once?
The easiest way is to do aggreagtion:
select etar.EmplKey, min(emp.EmplFullName)
FROM EmployeeTarget etar
inner join DimEmployee emp on emp.emplkey = etar.emplkey
inner join dimbranch br on br.BranchId = etar.BranchId
where etar.BranchId = 8
group by etar.EmplKey