Returning custome list of values with sequence no

• Charlottecb

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  April 24, 2006 at 10:05 am

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  Hi All (SQL Server 2000)

  I am trying to return a list of departments under which are the appropriate employees and against each I need a calced row id.

  Above each is the type of department (only 2 types present Academic and Support - these are dummies)

  Staff table (StaffID, Surname, Forename, Dept ID)

  Dept Table (Dept ID, Description, Dept_Type [Academic / Support])

  Example of what I need

  Row ID, Record ID, Description

  1  1  ACADEMIC

  2  1  English

  3  56  Brown: John

  4  54  Jones: Jane

  5  1  Smith: Alex

  6  2  Math

  7  55  Bloggs: Sue

  8  12  Davis: Sarah

  9  2  SUPPORT

  10  5  Cleaning

  11  3  MacDonald: Bruce

  12  2  Smith: Alex

  13  4  Laundry

  14  22  Adams: Geena

  15  13  Black: Jan

  16  189  Brown: Ian

   

  Thanks for any help.

  CCB

• sushila

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  April 24, 2006 at 10:34 am

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  If you're looking for numbering your rows "on the fly" you'll find several examples on this site...

  Here's one way of doing it...

  SELECT IDENTITY(INT,1,1) AS RowNum, col1, col2...
  INTO #tempResults
  FROM myTable
  WHERE...
  
  SELECT * FROM #tempResults
  
  DROP TABLE #tempResults
  

  You can also do it w/out using temp tables and using count(*) instead...just search this site...

  
  
  
  
  
  
  **ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI !!!**

• Jeff Moden

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  April 24, 2006 at 6:15 pm

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  I dunno... I don't think the count method could be made to work with any great effeciency here.  At best, you'd end up with a triangular join...

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