Re: results being col wise rather than row wise

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Hrishikesh Deshmukh wrote:

> HI All,
>
> I have 5 tables which have different columns as shown below, each table has
> a different case column,
> i want to retrieve sample related information as follows:
>
> pid | xindex | yindex | height Index | flag | case1 | case 2.....etc
>
> But i get this queer result:
> pid | xindex | yindex | Height Index | flag | case
> -------------+--------+--------+-------------+-------------+---------
> 102234 | 411 | 271 | 9 | 1 | 80
> 102234 | 411 | 271 | 9 | 1 | 83
> 102234 | 411 | 271 | 9 | 1 | 87
> 102234 | 411 | 271 | 9 | 1 | 101
> 102234 | 411 | 271 | 9 | 1 | 129
> 102234 | 411 | 271 | 9 | 1 | 91
> 102234 | 411 | 271 | 9 | 1 | 120.3
>
> Why is the result in a column wise rather than row wise???!!!!
> Could somebody explain why the redundancy with respect to pi, xindex,
> yindex, height index, flag but the CORRECT values for the cases but not in
> the order expected!!!

Can you give us the specific schema and query you used? We're only going
to be guessing otherwise.