SQL Joing on a one-to-many relationship
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Ok, here was my original question;
Table one contains
ID|Name  
1  Mary  
2  John  
Table two contains
ID|Color  
1  Red  
2  Blue  
2  Green  
2  Black  
I want to end up with is
ID|Name|Red|Blue|Green|Black  
1  Mary Y   Y  
2  John     Y     Y     Y
It seems that because there are 11 unique values for color and 1000's upon 1000's of records in table one that there is no 'good' way to do this. So, two other questions.
Is there an efficient way to get this result? I can then create a crosstab in my application to get the desired result.
ID|Name|Color  
1  Mary  Red  
1  Mary  Blue  
2  John  Blue  
2  John  Green  
2  John  Black
If I wanted to limit the number of records returned how could I do something like this?
Where ((color='blue') AND (color<>'red' OR color<>'green'))
So using the above example I would then get back
ID|Name|Color  
1  Mary  Blue  
2  John  Blue  
2  John  Black
I connect to Visual FoxPro tables via ADODB. Thanks!
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