I have a table of students. In this students table, I have a name and room they are staying in.

I want a query that returns one row for each room that has as fields in that row the names of both people staying in that room.

There can only 0, 1 or 2 people in a room.

Im using a sql server as a backend so if the query can run on there that would be nice, otherwise I can just select all the students and then use vfp to to the query.

This is what I have so far.

select s1.lastname, s1.firstname, s2.lastname as lastname2, s2.firstname as firstname2, s1.room
from students s1 inner join students s2 on s1.hall=s2.hall and s1.room=s2.room and s1.periodid=s2.periodid and s1.studentid<>s2.studentid
where s1.hall = 'BREESE' and s1.periodid=4
order by s1.room

This almost works, However there is 2 records for each room. The difference between them is the names. Like this:

XXX YYY 101
YYY XXX 101

I just want one or the other, not 2 for each room. How can I do this?


Eric Stephani