Another easy question

Question

Another easy question

mcmcom

SSC Enthusiast

Points: 189
More actions
October 13, 2003 at 3:16 pm

#81235

Question 12 states:
“List the part number, part descrption, and item class, for each pair of parts that are in the same item class. “ What does this mean? There are more than 2 of each item in any one class and all the info is in the Part table. I did this, is it correct?
SELECT PART_NUM, DESCRIPTION, CLASS
FROM PART
ORDER BY CLASS
Is there something about pairing.
There are 10 items and three CLASSES. 5 in one category, 3 in another, 2 in another.
Thanks in advance

Viewing 6 posts - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Login to reply

Antares686 SSC Guru Points: 125444 More actions · Answer 1

Can you elaborate a bit more as this is really not enough info to tell you the result of what you are looking for. Is there anything that causes two records to be related to each other (especially since stating each pair in the question). If so then a join to itself on the table may be in order but I cannot give you a complete answer from this.

mcmcom SSC Enthusiast Points: 189 More actions · Answer 2

unfortunately i can't. I thought maybe there would be a ITEM CLASS table, that i could relate to. but there isn't. All the info I have, you have. My teacher is weird!

Antares686 SSC Guru Points: 125444 More actions · Answer 3

Not sure what to tell you, maybe I would press the teacher to make a bit clearer.

NPeeters SSChampion Points: 12541 More actions · Answer 4

I would think you need to selfjoin, returning something like :



Part    Item Class

----    ----------

1       1

2       1

3       2

4       1

Would return something like (just partid, no additional fields here).



PartA   PartB

-----   -----

  1       2

  1       4

  2       4

So you would list each combination of two parts that are in the same class.

This query does this



SELECT PartA.Part_Num, PartA.Description,

       PartA.Class, PartB.Part_Num,

       PartB.Description, PartB.Class

FROM Part PartA INNER JOIN Part PartB

     ON PartA.Class = PartB.Class

BTW, this query returns duplicates.

Edited by - NPeeters on 10/15/2003 3:33:59 PM

SQLBill SSC Guru Points: 51440 More actions · Answer 5

Can you post the data that is in the table/columns?

-SQLBill