Question

I have a table that looks like this:

Name     Job        Year    ImpFile   ImpDate
------------------------------------------------
John     Clerk      1986    Imp01     20.01.2012
James    Assistant  1990    Imp01     20.01.2012
Anna     Manager    1982    Imp02     26.02.2012
Sam      Salesman   1985    Imp02     26.02.2012
Dean     Cleaner    1985    Imp02     26.02.2012

And I need to create a view that looks something like this:

Name   ImpFile/Job         Year
--------------------------------
       Imp01 20.01.2012
John   Clerk               1986
James  Assistant           1990
       Imp02 26.02.2012
Anna   Manager             1982
Sam    Salesman            1985
Dean   Cleaner             1985

Is it possible to do something like this in Microsoft SQL Server 2005? If yes, then how do I do it?

Answer 1

Without using a view:

create table test(
name varchar(10),
Job varchar(20),
year smallint,
ImpFile varchar(10),
ImpDate datetime)

insert into Test
values('John', 'Clerk', 1986, 'Imp01', '20.01.2012')

insert into Test
values('James', 'Assistant', 1990, 'Imp01', '20.01.2012')

insert into Test
values('Anna', 'Manager', 1982, 'Imp02', '26.02.2012')

insert into Test
values('Sam', 'Salesmas', 1985, 'Imp02', '26.02.2012')


--drop table test

select * from
(
select name,Job,ImpFile,year from test
group by name, Job, ImpFile, year
union all
select distinct null, null, ImpFile + ' ' + convert(nvarchar, ImpDate, 104), null from test
) tablePlusHeaders
order by left(ImpFile,5), name, year