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I have a table structure

MemberDetails
----------------
MembershipDetailsID PK
MembershipID FK
Benefits Varchar

A MembershipID can contain many benefits which can be added.

At the time of retrieval i want a query to fetch all the benefits for this MembershipID in a single record.

i.e in normal suitations my query to fetch benefits is as following...

select Benefits from MemberDetails where MembershipID=10;
here i will get mutiple records.

what i want is a single record with Benefits values as comma seperated.




can you help me regarding this sub-query? is this posibble?is this question
against the normalisation rules?

Thanks
[ March 30, 2007: Message edited by: sreenivas jeenor ]
 
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Hmm. It doesn't sound like you need to so anything in SQL here. Why don't you handle this in whichever application generated the query? There is no easy way to turn a result set into a single record without some programming logic. You could do it in a Stored Procedure, by iterating though your results set to generate another one by concatenating the results.
 
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Thanks Paul for your suggestion.
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