Re: Using two colomns of mysql data as key/value pairs in arrays

From: Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 15:17:26 +0000
Subject: Re: Using two colomns of mysql data as key/value pairs in arrays
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> From: "Chris Boget" <chris@wild.net> > > My bad. > > If MySQL had crosstab functionality, that *might* be able to help. > A "crosstab" is just a specifically formatted query, of which MySQL is > certainly capable of handling. I've done them in the past, but maybe you're > thinking of something more complex. Either way, not sure it would help or be > worth it for this (dead) issue. :) Then I'm not calling it the right thing... just the name of the type of query that was told. The kind of query I'm talking about is the one that rotates the result set from tall to wide. Basically doing exactly what the OP had asked for. If that kind of query isn't called a 'crosstab' query, I'm not sure what the name is. I know that mysql doesn't support it but PG does (I'm just starting to learn PG). Chris

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