It is very very very very hard to do and works best when you have a fixed number of items or at least a maximum number.

In my experience, this type of manipulation is better off being handled by something outside of the database.

-Mike

>I have a parent record with 0-n child records. The child records contain a field that I want to combine all the values into a single comma delimited string. I want to run a SQL7 query that will choose the parent record once and create the comma delimeted string as a field in the result set instead of choosing the parent record repeatedly for each child record. Is there any way to do this with SQL only, i.e.:no stored procedure?
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>Thanks in advance for any help with this.
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>Don