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Does anyone have any ideas?
I have inherited a bad table design that looks like this:

id date date2 date3
1 01/01/2003 02/02/2003 03/03/2003
does anyone know how to write a query that isn't a make table that will return

id date
1 01/01/2003
1 02/02/2003
1 03/03/2003

Thanks again in advance
Nov 12 '05 #1
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On 18 Nov 2003 01:51:41 -0800 in comp.databases. ms-access,
we****@hotmail. com (Michael) wrote:
Does anyone have any ideas?
I have inherited a bad table design that looks like this:

id date date2 date3
1 01/01/2003 02/02/2003 03/03/2003
does anyone know how to write a query that isn't a make table that will return

id date
1 01/01/2003
1 02/02/2003
1 03/03/2003

Thanks again in advance


Select date from table union select date2 from table union select
date3 from table;

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