Re: Concatenate multiple rows into a single row - Very Urgent

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.