Re: Complicated query

From: Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex_at_attglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:40:40 -0500
Message-ID: <m6fcql$jgo$1_at_dont-email.me>


On 12/12/2014 12:04 PM, Peter H. Coffin wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:26:18 -0500, Shelly wrote:

>> On 12/12/2014 10:11 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>> They are different answers to the question in that row.  Each ROW has a
>>> different question - not each COLUMN.  You don't have 18 columns - one
>>> for each question.  You have 18 rows.  Each row has the question and
>>> five possible answers.
>>
>> ...and you don't know what you are talking about.  There is ONE row for 
>> each instance and 18 columns, ONE column for ONE answer to each of the 
>> 18 DIFFERENT questions for THAT instance --- in the design that the 
>> person (philosopher??) suggested as a single table, NOT the actual 
>> design that I was working with.
>>
>> So much like you, that you insist that you are right even when you are 
>> clearly wrong -- and have been corrected, what, four times now.

>
> Here is the DDL richard posted that you said you'd use.
>
> -----------
> Columns would be
> ID
> Question
> Achoice
> Bchoice
> Cchoice
> Dchoice
> Correct
> -----------
>
> One question, four answers, which one's correct.
>
> You are misremembering what you agreed to or you're misrepresenting it.
> Either way, Jerry's assessment of what richard posted is true.
>

Thank you, Peter!

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