- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:31:26 -0700
- To: Dmitry Turin <html60@narod.ru>
- CC: public-html@w3.org
Dmitry Turin wrote: > Good day, Jonas. > JS>You just have to format the data row-by-row. > > Can low-skill users write program (for example, by perl or php), > which convert 3 rational table (from DBMS) into 1 browser table ? > No. > In better case, users can write 3 simple request to DBMS and > merge result into output, like Most DBMS'es can order data such that it can be outputted directly in a row-by-row order. At least I have never interacted with a DBMS where I couldn't take the output and directly dump it to HTML. > It's impossible (without additional job in database) to order cells > in any dimension. It should be as simple as adding something like "ORDER BY field_i, field_j" to your database query. If your query language is different from SQL the exact statement will probably be different, but the mechanism will most likely be there. / Jonas
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