You are looking for what is commonly referred to as a "pivot-table" or a
"cross-tab". Pivot-tables are a fairly sophisticated, non-normalized view of
a dataset, nd most commonly appear in spreadsheets and are used for
financial or statistical analysis.
These queries typically use an aggregate function (sum, min, max, etc....)
and a "group by" clause when generated from an SQL query...
There are lots of decent tutorials / samples out there (Google for "Pivot
Table SQL" and you'll see...)
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Files/09/15608/Listing_01.txt
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-February/264233.html
"Henry Ortega" <juandelacruz@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:2bffcc3305080211342745b1ab@mail.gmail.com...
>I have the ff table:
>
> id | total | effective | end_date
> john 6 01-01-2005 02-28-2005
> john 8 03-01-2005 06-30-2005
>
> How can I return:
> id | total | effective | end_date
> john 6 01-01-2005 01-31-2005
> john 6 02-01-2005 02-28-2005
> john 8 03-01-2005 03-31-2005
> john 8 04-01-2005 04-30-2005
> john 8 05-01-2005 05-31-2005
> john 8 06-01-2005 06-30-2005
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
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