| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Is it possible to have a SELECT with a variable number of columns? |
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| Author | Tupy... nambá |
| Post date | 2013-11-18T10:29:56Z |
Walter,
This possible using a cross-table. You can build it putting subqueries side-side (in the result).
SELECT
a.Date, a.Invoice, a.Amount_Sale,
(SELECT FIRST 1 b.Amount_Tax FROM Table2 b WHERE b.IdTable1 = a.IdTable2) AS Tax1,
(SELECT FIRST 2 SKIP1 b.Amount_Tax FROM Table2 b WHERE b.IdTable1 = a.IdTable2) AS Tax2,
(SELECT FIRST 3 SKIP1 b.Amount_Tax FROM Table2 b WHERE b.IdTable1 = a.IdTable2) AS Tax3,
/----
other "columns" subqueries
----/
FROM Table1 a
This will bring you something like a spreadsheet result, but you have to stablish a limit of
columns of taxes they may have. With a previous query, you can ask for the maximum amount of taxes may exist in Table2 for one Table1 row, and dinamically mount the above query. This can be a front-end SQL generated code in Delphi, VB, a.s.o..(easy way) or in SQL itself, wich I think can be a little harder to build, but possible. Try it by yourself.
Good luck, best regards,
Roberto Camargo,
Rio de Janeiro/Brazil.
On Saturday, November 16, 2013 11:59 PM, W O <sistemas2000profesional@...> wrote:
Hello everybody
I have an application where the tables are all normalized and so the taxes are not in the same table as the sales.
Sometimes a sale should to pay 1 tax, sometimes 2 taxes, sometimes 3 taxes, etc.
And it would be nice to have in just 1 row data of the sale and of the taxes, each tax in its own column:
DATE, INVOICE, AMOUNT, TAX1, TAX2, TAX3, ... TAXN
Table1
----------
ID_TABLE1
DATE
INVOICE
AMOUNT_SALE
Table 2
----------
ID_TABLE2
ID_TABLE1
ID_TAX
AMOUNT_TAX
Greetings.
Walter.