I like your solution Tony. We had an occurrence yesterday where that would have been handy and I didn't think of it. ______________________________________________________
Bill Grover Supervisor MIS Phone: 301.424.3300 x3324 EU Services, Inc. FAX: 301.424.3696 649 North Horners Lane E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD 20850-1299 WWW: http://www.euservices.com ______________________________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Schreiber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 9:49 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: SQL: Brain Teaser > > > Ah. But by "loop through results and fetch comments" I > thought you meant > something like query then loop and do a query for each user... > > What I wrote would be perfectly acceptable for me though. ;) > > > That would do it but not from sql. I know really don't > like having to use > > cfoutput to group I wish they would add group to cfloop at > least then it > > would be a little easier. > > > > Tyler Clendenin > > GSL Solutions > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Tony Schreiber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 7:46 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: SQL: Brain Teaser > > > > > > USERS TABLE > > > > ----------------- > > > > USER_ID > > > > USERNAME > > > > etc... > > > > > > > > COMMENTS TABLE > > > > ------------------------- > > > > COMMENT_ID > > > > USER_ID > > > > COMMENT > > > > etc... > > > > > > > > I know I can query USERS and then loop through the > results fetching > > > > the comments... but I'd rather not do that. Here's the > results I'm > > > > trying to get... in a SINGLE query if possible: > > > > > > > > USER_ID,USERNAME,MERGED_COMMENTS > > > > 1,joe,comment1<br>comment2<br>comment3 > > > > 2,sam,comment > > > > 3,sue,comment<br>another comment<br>etc. > > > > <CFQUERY NAME="mergedcomments"> > > SELECT username, comment > > FROM users u, comments c > > WHERE u.user_id = c.userid > > ORDER BY username > > </CFQUERY> > > > > <CFOUTPUT QUERY="mergedcomments" GROUP="username"> > > #username#,<CFOUTPUT>#comment#<BR></CFOUTPUT> > > </CFOUTPUT> > > > > Wouldn't that do it? > > > > Tony Schreiber, Senior Partner > > Man and Machine, Limited > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technocraft.com > > http://www.is300.net The Enthusiast's Home of the Lexus IS300 since 1999 > ***** PARTS STORE NOW OPEN ***** http://www.is300.net/store/ > http://www.simplemessageboard.com Free Forum Software for Cold Fusion > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
