Hi Everyone:

I have a one-to-many table design (now that i know what one is :-) ) and am trying to use a select statement to get the data in one row, so to speak.

one table has contacts, another has phone types (ie home, home2, cell), and the third table has the contact_id, the phone_id (ie which type of phone), and the phone #. Obviously, a lot of people have more than one phone # so for each contact_id in the third table, there is more than 1 result.

I want to select this information in a query so it shows up in one record, not multiple records, based on each person's id (or for this example, their last name). For example, Joe Smith will have 4 different phone numbers. His contact_id is 1.

select f_lname, f_phone from t_contacts, t_phone where;
t_contacts.f_id = t_phone.contact_id;
group by f_lname, f_phone

I end up with the following;
Smith phone#1
Smith phone#2
Smith phone#3
Smith phone#4

I thought the group by clause would take care of this, but what i want to receive is
Smith phone#1 phone#2 phone#3 phone#4

I hope this makes sense. it feels like i'm missing something simple here, and while i could probably do this with multiple queries, i'm hoping there's an easier way. Is there? Thanks.

Paul