Re: Return rows as 1 line?

From: steph <stephan0h_at_yahoo.de>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 06:06:02 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <8f4db16d-e81c-4daa-a89a-fdcdbc244a81_at_s41g2000vba.googlegroups.com>



On 17 Mai, 22:17, The Magnet <a..._at_unsu.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Ok, I am hoping this is now going to be nuts, but say I have data like
> this:
>
> ID    PRODUCT     SKU
> 1         ABC           123
> 1         DEF           456
> 2         XYZ            000
> 2         MNO          999
> 3         GHI            888
>
> And this is what I would need:
>
> 1,ABC:123,DEF:456
> 2,XYZ:000,MNO:999
> 3,GHI:888
>
> So, records that have a certain criteria would have certain columns
> concatenated.  I'm thinking of putting together a dynamic query and
> then opening a cursor and selecting from it, creating the string as I
> go along.
>
> Any thoughts?  I'm going to go with the dynamic cursor unless someone
> else has a better idea.

Maybe something like this helps:
http://www.sqlsnippets.com/en/topic-11591.html Received on Wed May 19 2010 - 08:06:02 CDT

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