SQL 2000 or SQL 2005

So ... are the JC[North|South|West|East} and the people different columns?

If yes, it would be something like..

ORDER BY Region, CustomerLastName, CustomerFirstName

btw in your mockup data  JCEast has firstname lastname, and all the others have lastname firstname.

Different tables, If I group them they Output
ID  Company    LastName  FirstName
1    JCSouth       Smith          John
2    JCSouth       Houston     Steve
3    JCNorth       Jones           Adam

I want the following Output

1  JCSouth
2  Smith    John
3   Houston  Steve
4  JCNorth
5  Jones Adam

Looking at the bottom sample data, are you really (I mean really, c'mon now...) sure that's what you want?

Most reports will receive a set looking like this, which will allow any reporting / app to sort by Company and/or Customer, group with headers for Company, and even expand/collapse customers for a given company:  
 
CompanyID   CompanyName  CustomerID  CustomerName
1                   JCSouth                42                 Smith, John
1                   JCSouth                99                 Houston, Steve
2                   JCNorth                86                 Smart, Max
2                   JCNorth                101               Jones, Adam

That's what they want can't argue with them.  I would have been done.

I would recommend trying (arguing with them I mean) because this request is ridiculous.  I deal with "customer" requests all the time, usually internal, and in most cases it requires a conversation beyond the initial request.  Non-database people simply don't understand how data is stored and retrieved.  The grouping that you display in your requested output should be handled by a reporting layer (SSRS, Crystal) and not in the query.  Can it be done in TSQL? Yes, but it's going to be a maintenance and performance mess.

Can you provide the actual table layouts?  It's impossible to write a query without ANY knowledge of the schema.

If you truly want something like this, you'll need to use UNIONs, something like:

select CAST("JCSouth" as varchar(100)) as Region, 1 AS SortVal
UNION
select LastName + " " + FirstName, 2 AS SortVal
from <table>
where Region = 'JCSouth"
UNION
select ....

With and ORDER BY at the very end like:
ORDER BY SortVal

Not pretty and against all principle of developer decency.

Table schema

Table1

Orgid
Orgname

Table2

Empid
Orgid
Lastname
Firstname

Also there is like 80000 records. 20000 of them are Orgid and 60000 are Empid so Shaun Kline logic would never work. I basically want the layout Orgname then employees in a row each and continue the loop.

check this.

;with cte as (
select t1.OrgID,t1.OrgName,t2.EmpID,t2.LastName+','+t2.FirstName CustomerName
  from Table1 t1
  join Table2 t2
    on t1.OrgID = t2.OrgID),
cte1 as (
select row_number() over (order by OrgID,EmpID) rn,
       OrgName
 from (
select OrgID,0 EmpID,OrgName from Table1
union all
select OrgID,EmpID,CustomerName 
  from cte) t1)
select * from cte1
order by rn

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http://sqlfiddle.com/#!3/818c8/11

Sharath I didn't think this was going to be so complicated the actual schema is below.


select org.organizationID,org.organizationname,tAssignment.assignmentid,tPerson.LastName,tPerson.FirstName CustomerName
  FROM tOrganization org
INNER JOIN tOrganizationType ON org.OrganizationTypeID = tOrganizationType.OrganizationTypeID
INNER JOIN tAssignment ON tAssignment.organizationID = org.organizationID
INNER JOIN tPerson ON tAssignment.personID = tPerson.PersonID
INNER JOIN tAssignmentType ON tAssignment.AssignmentTypeID = tAssignmentType.AssignmentTypeID
INNER JOIN tPersonType ON tPerson.PersonTypeID = tPersonType.PersonTypeID
WHERE  org.parentID is null and org.organizationname is not null and org.organizationname <> '' and (tAssignment.topFirmAssignment = 0))

I'm going to agree with BriCrowe on this one.  You're not a waitress dude, so just because the client says 'I want it to look like this' doesn't mean that it SHOULD look like that, or that the design has to exactly match the cosmetics.

With that, I'll unmonitor this question.
Good luck.

Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Line 1: Incorrect syntax near '('.

(86947 row(s) affected)

(33674 row(s) affected)

(120621 row(s) affected)

I don't get any syntax errors when I run the code.  Can you at least copy the statement getting the error here so I can see it??

Error is coming from

DECLARE @force_unique_index_name varchar(36)
DECLARE @sql varchar(8000)

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb.dbo.#result') IS NOT NULL
    DROP TABLE #result
CREATE TABLE #result (
    organizationID int, organizationname varchar(128),
    assignmentid int,
    LastName varchar(100), FirstName varchar(100)    
    )
SET @force_unique_index_name = NEWID()
SET @sql = 'CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX [result__CL_' + REPLACE(@force_unique_index_name, '-', '') + '] ON #result ( organizationID, assignmentid ) WITH ( FILLFACTOR = 85 )'
EXEC(@sql)

I can execute that code fine on my box ... maybe you have some other code before it??!

I'm running SQL 2000

Error is coming from:

EXEC(@sql)

I don't see anything that should be a syntax error on SQL 2000 either.

Something else is going on ... that is not a syntax error.

It worked when I commented out EXEC(@sql)

Genius great work