'What does the MD in Oracle's MDSYS stand for?

Oracle has an user called MDSYS.

What does the MD stand for? Something like 'main database'?



Solution 1:[1]

As deepak adviced, you might use distinct.

However, I guess you need to get maximum value from all records with the same user_id? Then you need to use sql to group values by user_id and selecting max from it. In Rails that might be like this. I can't tell you that it will work for sure because don't remember the output, believe it's array of hashes, it might throw the error that you're not using some other field:

Post.group(:user_id).max(:value)

it's SQL equalent:

SELECT user_id, MAX(value) FROM posts GROUP BY user_id

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Solution 1 Ruslan K