Hello, This is my first post on this nice forum, so please be gentle [] I have a table which looks like this: Table: Main ID Name Probe ----------------------------------- 1 xxx |1234|567|3456| 2 yyy |234|3456|7654|3890|3421| 3 zzz |4566|2|4632|5678| The data in the Probe field represent rows in another table (with ID's of 1234, 567, 3456 and so on - let's call it ProbeTbl). Table: ProbeTbl ID Name ------------------------------- 2 Haha! 1234 So you think 567 you can do this 3456 easily! What I am trying to do is to write a SELECT query in order to join the two tables and fetch the Probe data from the ProbeTbl aswell. The idea is to query table Main (e.g Main.ID=1) and get also 'So you think', 'you can do this', 'easily'. The problem is that each Main.Probe field is variable and I don't know how to turn one Probe record into multiple rows. Any ideas how this can be done? Many thanks in advance.
Well, I just hope that this is a classroom excercise. If you ever run into this in a production database, you know it will only ever give you massive headaches because someone decided to go against the very core of database design - normalization.
Thank you for the quick and prompt reply. It's a classroom exercise. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on this