Hi- I'm doing a conversion from an older database in which a memo field was handled by storing one line per record and
thendisplaying the related records in order. I want to compress all of the lines into a single text field with one
recordper memo entry.
So for instance, the old database looks like this:
memo_id | sequence | memo_text
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666 | 1 | The quick
666 | 2 | red fox
666 | 3 | jumped over
666 | 4 | the lazy brown dog
And my goal is to transform each group of lines into a single record that looks like this:
memo_id | memo_text
----------------------------------------------------------
666 | The quick red fox jumped over the lazy brown dog
Any thoughts on how to do this via sql? I could write a little program to do it, but it seems like there must be a
pure-SQLsolution that I'm not seeing.
Thanks -Nick
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