Hi

I had a table name tbl_purchase

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tbl_purchase` (
`pur_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`pur_code` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`pur_tot_prod` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`pur_prod_code` text NOT NULL,
`pur_dt` date NOT NULL,
`pur_status` char(1) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`pur_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ;


Records in the table :

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Pur_id | pur_code | pur_tot_prod | pur_prod_code | pur_dt | pur_status |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

1 PU1001 3 P2001|||P2002|||P2003 2011-02-03 Y
2 PU1002 2 P2001|||P2003 2011-02-04 Y
3 PU1002 1 P2004 2011-02-04 Y

This is how the values stored. Now i want to generate an report using product code.

If the user types P2003 it should fetch 2 records. Since the product code are stored like P2001|||P2002|||P2003.

How can i fetch ? Please help me....


Thanks & Regards
P.Balakrishnan

there's your error right there -- this design fails first normal form

use a separate purchase_products table, with one row per product per purchase