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I have two tables in sql One has foreign key relationship with other
table

On running a query i found the result as follows

catname subcatname

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I need a result set in such a way that

there should have as follows

catname subcatname

Windows Hosting Control Panel
FTP
Mail
Database
Web Stats
Linux Hosting Plesk
cPanel
Thanks in advance.

Jun 23 '07 #1
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select IIf(
(
select count(*) from subcategories as s2
where s2.catname = s.catname
and s2.subcatname < s.subcatname
)=0,s.catname, "") as catname, s.subcatname
from subcategories as s
order by s.catname, s.subcatname
It may be better to do this kind of display formatting on the client.
Nitin wrote:
I have two tables in sql One has foreign key relationship with other
table

On running a query i found the result as follows

catname subcatname

Windows Hosting Control Panel
Windows Hosting FTP
Windows Hosting Mail
Windows Hosting Database
Windows Hosting Web Stats
Linux Hosting Plesk
Linux Hosting cPanel

I need a result set in such a way that

there should have as follows

catname subcatname

Windows Hosting Control Panel
FTP
Mail
Database
Web Stats
Linux Hosting Plesk
cPanel
Thanks in advance.
Jun 23 '07 #2
On Jun 23, 8:24 pm, John Winterbottom <john...@rogers.cawrote:
select IIf(
(
select count(*) from subcategories as s2
where s2.catname = s.catname
and s2.subcatname < s.subcatname
)=0,s.catname, "") as catname, s.subcatname
from subcategories as s
order by s.catname, s.subcatname

It may be better to do this kind of display formatting on the client.

Nitin wrote:
I have two tables in sql One has foreign key relationship with other
table
On running a query i found the result as follows
catname subcatname
Windows Hosting Control Panel
Windows Hosting FTP
Windows Hosting Mail
Windows Hosting Database
Windows Hosting Web Stats
Linux Hosting Plesk
Linux Hosting cPanel
I need a result set in such a way that
there should have as follows
catname subcatname
Windows Hosting Control Panel
FTP
Mail
Database
Web Stats
Linux Hosting Plesk
cPanel
Thanks in advance.
Actaully I am working on postgre database, as per your response i
could be able to write a query in postgre database

If i need a modified output as follows then how should i change the
query

My result along with inner join as follows

catname subcatname

Windows Hosting Control Panel
Windows Hosting FTP
Windows Hosting Mail
Windows Hosting Database
Windows Hosting Web Stats
Linux Hosting Plesk
Linux Hosting cPanel

My new Required output as follows

catname subcatname

Windows Hosting >
Control Panel
FTP
Mail
Database
Web Stats
Linux Hosting >
Plesk
cPanel

please suggest me modification in the code u provided.

Thanks in advance.

Nitin Roman
Jun 25 '07 #3

Nitin wrote:
>
please suggest me modification in the code u provided.

Thanks in advance.

Nitin Roman


Post your simplified table structure and some sample data
Jun 26 '07 #4

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