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Grasshopper
 
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Hello,
I am trying to create a view which gives records. Some of them have the same values over most of the fields. My goal is to group them by these fields. But, I cannot just group by these fields, I would have to group by all the fields in the "select" clause.
I know of a command called "Break on" in Oracle SQL-Plus. This creates a line break when it finds a unique record. So the repeating record gets listed only once. However, this command doesn't seem to be working for SQL Server. I want to know an equivalent of that so that I would have the repeating record listed just once.
Any help on this would be truely appreciated
Thanks
Shruti
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I don't believe there is such a function in T-SQL. But I'd also say that this kind of thing should be done in the presentation layer, not in the database. Should be very easy to do in your application, I would think.
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So the repeating record gets listed only once.
This sounds like a SELECT DISTINCT query. It returns only the unique combinations of all columns included in the SELECT list.
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GSquared (4/24/2009)
I don't believe there is such a function in T-SQL. But I'd also say that this kind of thing should be done in the presentation layer, not in the database. Should be very easy to do in your application, I would think.
I understand this, but do you the following is possible in T-SQL?
Assume the format of the data is in the following:
A B C D
A B C D
A B C D
A B C D
Is there a way to render the output as the following?
A B D
C
A B D
C
A B D
C
A B D
C
Thanks for any help
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