Suppress "Distinct" Clause from Answers Query

Hello All:
How can I suppress the "Distinct" clause that the BI Server issues to the Oracle Database?
For Ex:
I have a customer Table with FirstName and LastName as columns. If I Query FirstName and LastName in Answers, BI server sends a Query like this:
select distinct T8944.fname as c1,
T8944.lname as c2
from
CUSTOMER T8944
order by c1, c2
This will suppress customers having the same name even if their customer Id is different. I want their names included also.
I would appreciate your help.
Thanks
rkingmdu

AFAIK, there's no config setting or so to prevent this implicit grouping. What you can do though is to add the customer Id ot the report and make the column hidden (Column Format - Hide).
Hth,
Chris
Edited by: Christian Berg on Sep 25, 2008 4:39 PM:
Or what Matt said ;-) Should type faster...

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Hi Raj
what is e in the query ?It is the column name you provided yourself in your own unformatted example.
After 400+ posts I thought you would understand that it's not that hard to put this exact tag => (yes, 6 characters, 4 letters between 2 curly brackets) before and after your code examples or sample data or explain plans.
That way you maintain formatting and improve readability for us poor readers by magnitudes.
But, I'm sure you'll succeed as well as all the others who can.
I always look on the bright side.
Example:
Earlier this week another Raj also finally got enlightened about it, and his life has since then changed forever!
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2. CREATE / INSERT statements with sample data
3. Expected output
4. Use \ tags (surround #2 and #3 in these tags)
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While its executing its taking lot of time. With DBMS_PROFILER identified the queries taking long time.
The table is having approximately 70 million rows.
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unique wrote:
The table is having approximately 70 million rows.
select * from table_name order by col1;Do you really want 70,000,000 rows from your table without any restrictions ? And furthermore ordered output ? I honestly understand the slowness of that query.
Here i am having 2 solutions request to let me know whether i am right if not suggest me right solution.Who knows if you choosed the right solution. I would suggest to reconsider your query and the need of 70,000,000 returned rows.
Problem-2
I am having a query with where condition on columns.
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And OS and Oracle version.
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/Edited by: raj_fresher on Aug 12, 2009 8:50 AM
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its like this ...... ?
You have to understand that without any testdata/ a reproducable testcase, all I can do is asking you to test some alternatives, I'm just guessing things from what I can make of your example, and hope you'll repost back any differences in a clear and concisive way.
What I didn't understand is why you're not just joining your tables/views instead of using inner queries.
Unfortunatly you're not providing any feedback on that, on the other hand you've narrowed down your problem to a specific part of your query? But you're not sharing why/what makes you decide to take that turn.
But: you're still using inner queries in your reply.
So, sorry, I cannot proceed/say anything useful unless you answer my previous post.
Because, there are still many other questions/doubts: I don't understand why you're not aliasing your columns properly, for example.
I don't know why you've suddenly switched to VW_GET_USER_cust_sa?
I don't know if you've tried the straight join instead of nesting queries?
And if you did, what's the problem?
Please read and understand this, so you'll get your answers by the speed of light the next time you've got a question or problem:
http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2005/06/how-to-ask-questions.html
And don't refrain from using that tag ;)

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Friends,
I have a query which returns results in 40 seconds without distinct clause and when I add distinct clause it takes over 2 hours.
I have verified following -
1. indexes/table statistics are up to date.
2. columns that are used in where clause but are not indexed have upto date column statistics
Any idea what could be the reason, explain plan shows that distinct clause has a very expensive cost.
Thanks
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48    6865 db file scattered read          file#                           108   000000000000006C block#                          1593370000000000026E69 blocks                          32    0000000000000020 2                                      30                                      WAITED KNOWN TIME
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48                                     log file sync                                                    1                                      0                                      0                                      0                                      0                                      563
48                                     db file sequential read                                          11                                     0                                      0                                      0                                      0                                      243
48                                     db file scattered read                                           6820                                   0                                      330                                    0                                      7                                      3296557
48                                     SQL*Net message to client                                        19                                     0                                      0                                      0                                      0                                      23
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> I tried the 'Save & Reuse Varibale Values' options
> from the Query Properties Dialog Box. Although this
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> Characteristic Variable on 0CALDAY & this variable is
> also getting resued because of the setting I made for
> 0DAT. I want this variable to pop-up and the 0DAT
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>
> Would also like to know why 0DAT Variable is
> popping-up even when I dont use 0CALDAY at all....
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Ravi

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as to what I am doing incorrectly?
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