record formating

  • dear folks this is lil bit urgent issue...

    i have one table with certain records ....

    col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6

    IT3 njfghj 0 0 0 Blue

    IT3 njfghj 0 0 Simple 0

    IT3 njfghj 0 35 0 0

    IT3 njfghj Lee 0 0 0

    i want result as

    col1 col2 col3 col4 col5 col6

    IT3 njfghj Lee 35 Simple Blue

    means eliminating all the zeros and just wanna result in the above format.

    how is this posible??

  • A (primitive) solution could be joining 4 time the table with itself, like this:

    select

    tbl3.col1, tbl3.col2,

    tbl3.col3, tbl4.col4, tbl5.col5, tbl6.col6

    from

    (select * from #tmp where col3 is not null) tbl3

    inner join

    (select * from #tmp where col4 is not null) tbl4

    on tbl3.col1 = tbl4.col1 and tbl3.col2 = tbl4.col2

    inner join

    (select * from #tmp where col5 is not null) tbl5

    on tbl3.col1 = tbl5.col1 and tbl3.col2 = tbl5.col2

    inner join

    (select * from #tmp where col6 is not null) tbl6

    on tbl3.col1 = tbl6.col1 and tbl3.col2 = tbl6.col2

    In my example the table #tmp contains the values you provided in your example, and I used NULL values instead zero (but the values and conditions can be altered according to your needs). This is the first solution that I could come up with wright now. I am curious to see what other solutions will come.

    Best regards,

    Boti

    🙂


    🙂

  • Have you tried:

    select max(col1),

    max(col2),

    max(col3),

    max(col4),

    max(col5),

    max(col6)

    from tablename

    ?

  • Or

    select col1,

    col2,

    max(col3),

    max(col4),

    max(col5),

    max(col6)

    from tablename

    group by col1,col2

    to group by first 2 cols.

    Edited by - davidburrows on 06/26/2003 06:44:56 AM

    Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
    Anon.

  • thanks folks...i have done this with "max" and got the desired results.

    thanks again

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