Martin Kuria wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have a staff directory, which group staff in various categories I
would like to group the staff members in there specific categories,
Below is an output I would like to achieve can this be achived my using
the Group by or I can write a script to achieve the output below please
do assist. As you can see the staff members are group in their
respective Categories and Subcategory unlike the output above.
staff_lname | staff_fname | staff_id | staff_catid | staff_subcatid |
cat_acron | subcat_acron | staff_sortorder
-------------+-------------+----------+-------------+----------------+-----------+--------------+-----------------
ADSDS
ODA
Vacant | Vacant | 8836 | 500 | 534 |
ADSDS | ODA | 0
nnnnn | aaaaa | 7148 | 500 | 534 |
ADSDS | ODA | 0
WEB
bbbbb | Sbbbbb | 7150 | 500 | 534 |
ADSDS | WEB | 1
xxxxx | cccccc | 7174 | 500 | 534 |
ADSDS | WEB | 1
eeeee | dddddd | 7173 | 500 | 534 |
ADSDS | WEB | 2
Am I right in thinking you're trying to do headings here?
heading1: ADSDS
heading2: ODA
...rows...
heading2: WEB
...rows...
This is a formatting issue - do it in your client code. There are report
-generating systems available for many languages.
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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