SELECTing multiple rows to a single output line

Anybody knows a way to produce output from a SELECT statement on a single line, instead of each hit on a separate line?

Here is what I mean: let's say I have a table listing families, one per row that includes the name of father, mother and the number of children. Then there would be another table with one row for each child and the rows would be linked to the first table with a foreign key scheme.

Now I would like to list each family with joining the two tables, with the name of children listed on the same line as the parents, with -- say -- a comma separating each child's name.

I can't figure out any way to produce SELECT output serially, on a single line. Some suggested stored procedures but my past experience with stored procedures was that they often were "unstored" when the DBA did some maintenance and it was just not as reliable as using dynamic SQL statements, in this case with Java.

Thanks for any tips you might have,
Rudy Received on Sat Aug 13 2005 - 23:08:16 CDT