I would have created a table with the student info, then using an id field from the student table, created a table that had student id, question #, and answer. Obviously there would also be a table that had question number and question. So to pull the info, I would do the following select:
Tables: Student_table Student_id Student_name .... Question_table Question_id Question Student_question_table Student_id Question_id Answer Select student_name, question, answer >From student_table a , question_table b , student_question_table c Where a.student_id=c.student_id and b.question_id=c.question_id Eric -----Original Message----- From: Robert Everland III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 07 March 2006 06:56 To: CF-Talk Subject: Query brain teaser I have come across this a few times and was wondering how some of you would attack it. I have a table that looks like this uniqueID q1 q2 q3 ... q50 In reality the table should look like this uniqueID studentID answer qid I need it to have multiple records so I can do a join on a table that holds the answer which is written as a table with multiple records as opposed to a table with multiple columns.I know I can accomplish this in coldfusion. The way I did it was to query the big table, then create a structure so each column was in a structure. What would you have done? Bob ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:234579 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
