Miguel Cruz wrote: > 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 >
Yeah, apparently i wasn't the first to not catch that either. I realy should start paying attention. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
