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Posted - 2004-03-31 : 08:47:27

shane writes "Hello,

I have written this SQL statement, and it works fine.

SELECT dbo.items2.description, dbo.dogs.sections, dbo.items2.itemnumber, dbo.items2.catC, dbo.items2.price, dbo.items2.vendor
FROM dbo.items2, dbo.dogs
WHERE id = 'MMColParam' AND dbo.items2.catB = 'MMColParam' GROUP BY dbo.items2.vendor, dbo.items2.description, dbo.dogs.sections, dbo.items2.itemnumber, dbo.items2.catC, dbo.items2.price

however, it displays the data like this:

(Section)

(Vendor)
(Itemnumber) (description)
(Vendor)
(Itemnumber) (description)
(Vendor)
(Itemnumber) (description)

The vendors are grouped alphabetically which is fine, but i only want each vendor name listed one...like this:

((Section)

(Vendor)
(Itemnumber) (description)
(Itemnumber) (description)
(Itemnumber) (description)

(Vendor)
(Itemnumber) (description)
(Itemnumber) (description)
(Itemnumber) (description)

Any suggestions? I would really appreciate it..thank you.
shane"

derrickleggett
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Posted - 2004-03-31 : 09:36:41

That's really a display issue and should be handled in the front end. If you are passing XML to the front end, you could accomplish what you are doing by setting Vendor as the Parent Node and using for xml. Other than that, you need to handle it on the application side.

MeanOldDBA
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