Question

I’m really not sure how to query this at all. I have in my DB the following

id,employee,jobsite1,stime,etime,lunchout,lunchin,description,materials,jobsite2,stime,etime,lunchout2,lunchin2,description2,materials2

That actually repeats 5 times. When I do SELECT * from table works like a charm pulls all my data (I export this into an xls to edit it), I then take all the info from jobsite2,3,4,&5 and copy and paste it onto ONE row. so basically

ID, EMPLOYEE, JOBSITE,  , STIME,ETIME,LUNCHOUT,LUNCHIN, DESCRIPTION, MATERIALS
1,  CHRIS   , MYSITE,   , 9:00, 1:00 ,12:15,   12:45  , WORKED HERE, NONE
1,  CHRIS   , SECONDSITE, 1:15, 5:00 ,        ,       , WORKED HERE, NONE
2,  BOB     , MYSITE    , 9:00, 5:00 ,12:00   ,12:30  , WORKED HERE, NONE
3,  MIKE    , MYSITE    , 9:00, 2:00 ,12:00   ,12:30  , WORKED HERE, BOUGHT STUFF
3,  MIKE    , SECONDSITE, 2:00, 5:30 ,        ,       , DOING THIS , NONE

IS there a way to query this without me doing this manually through excel? Using maybe JOIN? I have never used JOIN, but heard about it, and was always curious is exporting this could be easier once I have the right query setup? Does this make sense?

Answer 1

If I understand you correctly,you can do it using UNION

SELECT  id, employee, jobsite1, stime1, etime1, 
        lunchout1, lunchin1, description1, materials1
FROM tableName
UNION
SELECT  id, employee, jobsite2, stime2, etime2, 
        lunchout2, lunchin2, description2, materials2
FROM tableName
UNION
SELECT  id, employee, jobsite3, stime3, etime3, 
        lunchout3, lunchin3, description3, materials3
FROM tableName
UNION
SELECT  id, employee, jobsite4, stime4, etime4, 
        lunchout4, lunchin4, description4, materials4
FROM tableName
SELECT  id, employee, jobsite5, stime5, etime5, 
        lunchout5, lunchin5, description5, materials5
FROM tableName