Re: [sqlite] Extracting distinct category and subcategory pairs
Dennis Cote wrote: > > flakpit wrote: > > You could try > >select distinct category, subcategory >from documents >order by category, subcategory; > > Then your application can do the display formatting, such as suppressing > the display of the category when it is the same as the last record. > You might be right at that. I'll have a try. Thank you for the suggestion. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Extracting-distinct-category-and-subcategory-pairs-tp17734716p17735884.html Sent from the SQLite mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
Re: [sqlite] Extracting distinct category and subcategory pairs
flakpit wrote: > > There may be thousands of category and subcategory duplications as they are > not the primary record identifier. > > I.e. A record has a category of "Manuals" and a subcategory "Audio" > Another record has a category of "Manuals" and a subcategory "Phone" > A record has a category of "Receipts" and a subcategory "Water" > A record has a category of "Receipts" and a subcategory "Gas" > A record has a category of "Receipts" and a subcategory "Electricityr" > > So they would look like: > > Manuals > + Audio > + Phone > Receipts > + Water > + Gas > + Electricity > You could try select distinct category, subcategory from documents order by category, subcategory; Then your application can do the display formatting, such as suppressing the display of the category when it is the same as the last record. HTH Dennis Cote ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
Re: [sqlite] Extracting distinct category and subcategory pairs
Hi Gary, Does SELECT DISTINCT category, subcategory from documents; not provide what you want? If not you may need to be more specific. Rgds, Simon ___ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
