>>>>BTW, in LS how did you eliminate blanks? I guess I would have to dig your utility somewhere...
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>>>Not sure what you mean by that.
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>>If I understood your suggestion correctly you were suggesting to have
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>>select LastName, FirstName, Phone, Type from People left join Phones on People.PersonID = Phones.PerrsonID
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>>In the report we'll have
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>>Last Name First Name  Home Phone(s)       Office Phone(s)     Cellular
>>LastName  FirstName   Phone (Print When Type='Home') ...

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>>My question is - how dd you get all the phones on the same line using this approach ? I believe it would not work this way and all phones would end up on a new line per phone.
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>Doesn't this seem like a crosstab to you?

Yes, it does. Though in my case since the number of possible types is limited and predefined I can get all the data into the cursor using few left joins and derived tables, e.g.

select p.LastName, p.FirstName, Home.HomePhone, ... from People p 
left join 
(select P.ID, Ph.Phone as HomePhone from People P 
LEFT JOIN Phones Ph on P.ID = Ph.ID and Ph.Type = 'Home') Home 
LEFT JOIN (...) 
LEFT JOIN (...)