removing duplicates from inner joins

Hi There,

I was wondering if someone could help me with the results on this query, at the moment I am getting values repeated and I was wondering if it was possible to have some of the columns grouped, I have tried to have grouping at the end of the query but this still did not group the rows.

Thanks in advance for your answer - Sean

The structure that i'm trying to acheive is like the following:
with each colour having multiple quantitys for each size:

colourdesc| sizedesc | xs | s | m | l
-----------
black |qoh| | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7
-----------
white |qoh| | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
-----------



!-- query results

+------------+------+------+-----------+--------+---------------+----------+
| qoh | size | shop | style | colour | colourdesc | sizedesc |
+------------+------+------+-----------+--------+---------------+----------+
| 0000000007 | 6 | 1 | 10475RIB1 | 2 | BLACK | L |
| 0000000000 | 6 | 1 | 10475RIB1 | 36 | CORRECTOR6771 | L |
| 0000000000 | 6 | 1 | 10475RIB1 | 15 | SPEARMINT6581 | L |
| 0000000000 | 6 | 1 | 10475RIB1 | 6 | WHITE | L |
| 0000000007 | 5 | 1 | 10475RIB1 | 2 | BLACK | M |
| 0000000000 | 5 | 1 | 10475RIB1 | 36 | CORRECTOR6771 | M |
| 0000000000 | 5 | 1 | 10475RIB1 | 18 | MERINGUE4016 | M |
| 0000000000 | 5 | 1 | 10475RIB1 | 6 | WHITE | M |
| 0000000002 | 4 | 1 | 10475RIB1 | 2 | BLACK | S |
+------------+------+------+-----------+--------+---------------+----------+


!--- query

select qoh
, shopsales.size, shopsales.shop, shopsales.style, shopsales.colour, co.colourdesc, sz.sizedesc
from shopsales
inner
join shops
on shopsales.shop = shops.shop
inner
join colours co
on shopsales.style = co.style
and shopsales.colour = co.colour
inner
join sizes sz
on shopsales.style = sz.style
and shopsales.size = sz.size
where shopsales.shop = 1
and shopsales.style = '10475RIB1'

are you saying you want several rows "collapsed" so that they show multiple sizes on one line?

no, you must do that in your scripting language, add an ORDER BY so that you get the rows in the order you want by control fields, i.e. "grouped" by shop, style, whatever, with size last

then loop over the rows, accumulating data in variables, and when you detect a break in the control fields, print a line