Hello all,
Being pretty new at SQL, I have a problem I don't know how to solve.
Assuming I have the following two tables of people and their nicknames,
and that I want to create a list containing UPTO 2 (or any value
greater than 1) nicknames for EACH member of a specific family (Fam
column), how would I do this?
I know how to get ALL of the nicknames for the family:
SELECT "MEMBERS"."Name", "NICKS"."Nickname"
FROM "NICKS",(SELECT "PEOPLE"."ID", "PEOPLE"."Name" FROM "PEOPLE" WHERE "PEOPLE"."Fam" = 1) AS "MEMBERS"
WHERE "NICKS"."ID" = "MEMBERS"."ID"
ORDER BY "MEMBERS"."Name"
but am totally clueless on how to impose a limit on the number of rows
to get for each individual family MEMBER.
Can it be done in a single query? I sure hope so. Any help?
Shmuel A. Kahn
PEOPLE
Fam |ID | Name | Yada1 Yada2 ....
---------------------------------- 1 | 1 | George ..... 1 | 2 | Sally ..... 1 | 3 | Joe ..... 1 | 4 | Barbara
.....2 | 5 | DarthVader .....
.....
.....
NICKS
ID | Nickname
------------------1 | Pops1 | BigChief1 | Honcho2 | Mums2 | YesMother3 | JoeJoe3 | Bumpkin3 | Jug4 | Barb
.....
.....
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You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
Shmuel A. Kahn
Shmuel@Kam-motion.com
