SOQL Distinct solution

I have been looking for a SOQL distinct solution and how you can get only unique values from a SOQL expression. So I went about writing a method to return distinct values from a SObject. Call the distinct method as follows: SOQLUtils.distinct(‘StageName’, ‘Opportunity’) and it will return all the distinct StageNames for all your Opportunities.

I have added the test class which has 100% code coverage.

public with sharing class SOQLUtils 
{
	public static Set<String> getDistinct(String Field, String Table)
	{
		 Set distinctSet = new Set();
		 List createAggregateListOfDistinctValues = Database.query('Select ' + Field + ' From ' + Table + ' where ' + Field  + ' !=null Group By ' + Field);

         for (AggregateResult aggregateResult : createAggregateListOfDistinctValues)
         distinctSet.add((String)aggregateResult.get(Field));
		 return distinctSet;
	}

	public static boolean isDistinct(String Field, String Table)
	{
		return getDistinct(Field, Table).size() > 1 ? true : false;
	}

	 @isTest static void getDistinctTest()
	 {
	 	List testAccountList = new List();
	 	for (Integer k=0; k < 200; k++)
	 		testAccountList.adD(new Account(Name='[Test]' + k));

	 	insert testAccountList;
	 	System.assert(getDistinct('Name', 'Account').size() == 200);
	 } 

	 @isTest static void getNotDistinctTest()
	 {
	 	List testAccountList = new List();
	 	for (Integer k=0; k < 200; k++)
	 		testAccountList.adD(new Account(Name='[Test]'));

	 	insert testAccountList;
	 	System.assert(getDistinct('Name', 'Account').size() == 1);
	 } 

	 @isTest static void isDistinctTest()
	 {
	 	List testAccountList = new List();
	 	for (Integer k=0; k < 200; k++)
	 		testAccountList.adD(new Account(Name='[Test]' + k));

	 	insert testAccountList;
	 	System.assert(isDistinct('Name', 'Account') == true);
	 } 
	 @isTest static void isNotDistinctTest()
	 {
	 	List testAccountList = new List();
	 	for (Integer k=0; k < 200; k++)
	 		testAccountList.adD(new Account(Name='[Test]'));

	 	insert testAccountList;
	 	System.assert(isDistinct('Name', 'Account') == false);
	 } 
}

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