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BigRetina
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2003-05-04 : 03:21:51
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| Salute..I need to view each employee in Employees table with his children from EmployeeFamily table like :EmployeeId Children---------- ----------1 John,Mia,Karla2 Sofi3 Peter,Sandy...etc...Can I do this in ONE statement???I looked into the COALESCE use in this forum i ended up with the following :DECLARE @ChildrenList varchar(100)SELECT @ChildrenList = COALESCE(@ChildrenList + ', ', '') + CAST(ChildName AS varchar(5))FROM EmployeeFamilyWHERE EmployeeId IN (Select EmployeeId from Employees)SELECT @ChildrenList AS ChildrenBUT...this solution shows ALL children for all employees in ONE COMMA SEPERATED STRING!..NOT WHAT I WANT!..Any ideas??Thanks IN Advance |
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jsmith8858
Dr. Cross Join
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Posted - 2003-05-04 : 08:49:12
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| Check out this article:http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=11021then read the comments -- posted by Byrmol is a function that will do exactly what you want. I recommend the function if you have Sql 2000, it works very well, and is easy to use.- Jeff |
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