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dpnadam
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29 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-18 : 11:48:09

Hi

Imagine I have a table called Details that looks like the below:

ID Animal1 Animal2 Animal3 Child1 Child2 Child3
1 Dog NULL NULL NULL Tom NULL
2 NULL NULL Cat Andrew NULL NULL
3 NULL Fish NULL NULL NULL Sarah
4 Horse NULL NULL NULL Laura NULL

I realise it does not make sense as a table, but this is similar to what I have to work with on a much reduced scale...

The query I am trying to do is retrieve just an animal and child value from each row. So in row 1 instead of getting each column I just want to get Dog AS Animal and Tom AS Child etc.

Is that possible?

Thanks

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-18 : 11:51:34

yup possible


SELECT COALESCE(Animal1,Animal2,Animal3) AS Animal,COALESCE(Child1,Child2,Child3) AS Child FROM Table

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dpnadam
Starting Member

29 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-18 : 11:57:20

Wow that was quick. Works great, thanks.

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-18 : 12:00:05

welcome

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X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-18 : 12:11:11

quote:
Originally posted by dpnadam

Wow that was quick. Works great, thanks.

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