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>> And the next question coming up is: How should my query look like so
>> that I can sort the (HTML) table by a specific year in ascending or
>> descending order? So, that it doesn't display it by the country names
>> alphabetical order, but by, say 1998?
>
> If you have only one row, how would you sort this result? ;-)
With the "old" design I had up to 240 rows - for each country/
territory one row. Now, I have 240*num_years rows.
The user should be able to sort then the resulting table by country
name as well as by any year in ASC or DESC order.