select on multiple indexes
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2012年7月6日 5:12
I have 2 tables
PRODUCTSPROD_ID PROD_NAME PROD_CAT 1 prod1 1 2 prod2 1,3 3 prod3 2,3
CATEGORIESCAT_ID CAT_NAME 1 mycat 2 newcat 3 thiscat
*each product may be assigned to multiple categories in the PROD_CAT column which are comma seperated.
I need a single SQL Select query to return product ID and NAMES but also the respective CATEGORY NAMES also seperated by comma
example
Is this possible? Thanks in advance for any help!1 | prod1 | mycat 2 | prod2 | mycat,thiscat 3 | prod3 | newcat,thiscat
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2012年7月6日 5:17
I would suggest you to create another table which will contain the Product_ID and the Category_ID, the way you are storing it now is considered very bad in relational terms and if you can't change it, then use a split function to split the comma separated categoryID and then join it with the category table and then again concatenate the category_Name using FOR XML PATH(''). Use will find a lot of examples of doing this on forums.
Thanks and regards, Rishabh K
- 已建议为答案 Murali_CHN 2012年7月6日 5:28
- 已标记为答案 xarrisx 2012年7月6日 11:22
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2012年7月6日 11:22
thanks for the quick reply!
I think i will have to go with the first solution while it is early in the project!
I would have bigger problems using the xml data

