Re: Concatenate multiple rows into a single row - Very Urgent
by Sybaseguru <collap@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jun 5, 2008 at 09:52 PM
Ivory towers are great - but some of us work in the real world and have to
produce systems that do stuff.
I agree its not very good practice to denormalise - but when I was at
school
the text book said that atoms couldn't be split!
I suggest you try to offer more constructive advice - or don't bother.
--CELKO-- wrote:
> Why are you formatting data in the back end? The basic principle of a
> tiered architecture is that display is done in the front end and never
> in the back end. This is a more basic programming principle than just
> SQL and RDBMS.
>
> Get a re****ting tool so you can do a sort for your lists and lay them
> out on paper or a screen in a way that a human being can read them.
> It would also help if you knew what 1NF means, too.