On Fri, 10 May 2002, Austin Marshall wrote: >> This not only takes care of the table row colors, but also removes >> duplicate company names so it looks MUCH neater this way :)))) > > Is there not a GROUP BY clause in MS SQL? I'm pretty sure there is. If > you group the query by company name then you don't have to worry about > duplicate company names... and it will help with performance, since the > db is optimized for that and you don't have to waste PHP to determine if > the row is a duplicate.
But he's dealing with cases where the company name remains the same but other data in the row changes (for instance, a company with multiple offices, where you wanted to list the phone number and address for each). GROUP BY would discard that other data. miguel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
