Yes, sorry I didn't say "I know this isn't strictly Perl" -- I usually do.

To set the record straight, I am doing it in Perl, and for more detail of what I'm doing with DBI -- what the tables look like is more or less irrelevant, but essentially my select is: 

select actor_name, episode_title, character_name
FROM <my tables>
WHERE <certain table columns match> AND actor_id = $id

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And this results in rows representing a list of episodes an actor has appeared in. Most of the time he or she played the same character, so the character_name is the same in every row.

I wanted to be able to do a preliminary type of select which returned either one or more-than-one rows depending on whether that actor played one or more roles in total.

It does seem that GROUP BY will do what I want. Thanks. 


($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
 =~y~b-v~a-z~s;                             print

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In reply to Re: Re: SQL query: are all results in one hashref key the same? by Cody Pendant
in thread SQL query: are all results in one hashref key the same? by Cody Pendant

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