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Mycroft Holmes20-Dec-10 16:08
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Both Piebald and Jorgen have essentially answered your question

You MUST not store the data again (unless you are going to normalise the data as suggested by piebald)

You should use a pivot query to present the data in the format the user requires. This article [^]may help (shameless plug)

I would suggest that you do both, restructure the data when you receive it from the State, just b/c someone else has a crappy format (or you are actually receiving denormalised data designed for output) does not mean you can't change it in your loading process.

Create a view (or at least a stored proc) based on the article that supplies the data in the format the users require.

Oh and give Piebald and Jorgen an upvote for the valid answers.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
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