You could use type as a state change point but your column allocation would fail for 03 Oct (Wed) since the first type was not available that day. If you reversed the type sort order then you would fail on 29 Sep (Sat) and 02 Oct (Tue) for the same reason. To allocate the correct content to the correct column then you need to pre-define type names applied to the column and still store both sets of type content until the date changed. Doing that you loose any (minor) memory advantage gained from recursively parsing the type. You would also have problems if three types were defined later and you only wanted to display two.

In reply to Re^5: Pivoting parts of a database table into an HTML table by jandrew
in thread Pivoting parts of a database table into an HTML table by Anonymous Monk

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