Re: newbie: how to return one iteration *per unique date (DAY!)* in a timestamp column?

Bastien, I had tried it with the parantheses around the date for the distinct. I tried again just now. Same result. But that's ok. I am onto the next step now. Niel, Jack, I got your fix working. It shows me that I am still so new; I own yet so little mastery of MySQL. Nisse, I see what you are suggesting. It seems I can go that route too. I have much to learn in every direction, so for right now anyway I am thinking to pursue the stream of thought started with what Niel and Jack just gave me. I do need data from the other columns too, and not just the date extracted from that timestamp field, ...and I need to count # of records in other tables that have the same unique date as the list of unique dates I just found in my first table, etc. .. so my thought is to want to do nested query(ies), where: *within* the while loop of the first recordset (which is now successfully returning just rows with unique dates), I do other query(ies) which will (in their own code block) find all rows of the date we are iterating.. so I can, for example, count number of records for each unique date, do math/statistics, etc. I need to play with everything before asking for more detailed help; I am just now asking if you think I am on the right track with my thinking - as I just mentioned in the sentence above this one? Thanks everyone! -Govinda