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Random Thoughts & Cartesian Products with Microsoft SQL Server

Splitting a single DataTable into Parent/Child DataTables for Hierarchical Processing (e.g., nested ASP.NET Repeater controls)

In ASP.NET, we often would like to output "grouped" data on our web pages, like this: Customer Product Sales-------- ---------- -----ABC FoundationProduct 1 $200Product 2 $437Product 3 $523The XLZ CompanyProduct 1 $240Product 2 $892Product 3 $395 The easiest way to do this is with nested Repeater controls; one for the outer group (Customers, this case), and within that Repeater's ItemTemplate we'd have another Repeater control for the details (Products). Read more →