Question

My colleague asked me a question regarding getting data from a SQL Server database.

I have a sample data set

[ID],[TOWN],[PERSON]
[1],[BELFAST],[JAMES]
[2],[NEWRY],[JOHN]
[3],[BELFAST],[SIMON]
[4],[LARNE],[ALAN]

Now from this I would like to return a SQL Dataset that returns me a different table based upon the view.

Essentially in code I could get a distinct on the town then loop sql filtering on the town. But is there a way I can do this in SQL?

Where I would get (3) views back (2 Belfast, 1 Newry and 1 Larne)

Basicly I it would return

[ID],[Town],[Person]
[1],[Belfast],[James]
[3],[Belfast],[Simon]

Then another view would return for ‘Larne’ and a Final one for Newry. Basically SQL creating views for each town it finds and then returns the records for each town.

Answer 1

Basically I have decided to Run it as a Stored Procedure to return me each item as a List. So something along the lines of this:

Create Procedure ListTowns
As
declare @towns char(11)

select @towns = (select distinct Town from [Towns])

while @towns is not null <> 0
begin
    select * from [YourTable] where Town = @towns
end