Creating a Phone Book / Horse Blanket type thing...

  • Hey guys. I'm not sure where to start on this but what I'm looking to do is to create a big sheet of Departments / People / Phone Numbers on a large scale sheet. All the information that's needed is already located in a database. What would be my best bet to use to extract the information I need and to have it automatically placed in the format I need it to be in. The sheet would be roughly 3.5' x 3'.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated into starting this off.

    This could possibly be in the wrong section, sorry for that. Not sure if it belonged here or in another one but SQL Server 2005 would be what I'm extracting from.

  • Heh... do you intend to print that size sheet?

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • Yeah, we have access to a very large / expensive printer which will print exactly that.

  • Probably easiest to write a pass-through query (maybe to a view) in Excel and print from Excel.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

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