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Can't use 'Group By'

  • July 2, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    #184188

    I am writing a report where I need to return a list of all cases an 'agent' was involved in, for each agent in the dept, as well as some summary statistics.

    Each row in my datasource represents a 'case'. Up to two agents can be involved in a case, so there is a column 'agent1' and a column for 'agent2' in each row.

    Since I cannot group on agent, I am wondering what is the best way to accomplish this?

    Should I write a report where the agent ID is a parameter and then just run/write a script to run the report for every agent ID?

    Or is there a better way to do this?

  • July 3, 2008 at 7:09 am

    #837812

    Or is there a better way to do this?

    2 agents in one row is not normalized data. Split the agents out into a separate table, and you'll find that your query now just auto-magically flows together nicely.

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