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   "R. P."  wrote in message   
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   | Anybody knows a way to produce output from a SELECT statement on a   
   | single line, instead of each hit on a separate line?   
   |   
   | Here is what I mean: let's say I have a table listing families, one per   
   | row that includes the name of father, mother and the number of children.   
   | Then there would be another table with one row for each child and the   
   | rows would be linked to the first table with a foreign key scheme.   
   |   
   | Now I would like to list each family with joining the two tables, with   
   | the name of children listed on the same line as the parents, with --   
   | say -- a comma separating each child's name.   
   |   
   | I can't figure out any way to produce SELECT output serially, on a   
   | single line. Some suggested stored procedures but my past experience   
   | with stored procedures was that they often were "unstored" when the DBA   
   | did some maintenance and it was just not as reliable as using dynamic   
   | SQL statements, in this case with Java.   
      
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