i want to insert multiple selected checkbox value in one colunm in MS Sql server 2005/08 Eg. checkboxes are:
Cricket Football Painting
Table structure like:
Id | name | Hobbies
----|----------|--------------------------
1 | Atish | cricket,football,painting
2 | Swapnil | football, painting
can you help me?
There is something called the third normal form: use it :)
Basically this means for you, you need to separate the hobbies from that table, create a seperate table with the possible hobbies and create a lookup-table between the people and the hobbies.
The dirty way would be to define a seperator and insert smth like cricktet|football|painting to the column: but I would really not suggest to do that!
You can make three tables
[Names]
Name_ID (int)
Name (varchar)
[Hobbies]
Hobby_ID
Hobby (varchar)
[Hobbies_Names]
Name_ID (foreign key)
Hobby_ID (foregin key)
So, if Atish, who has Name_ID = 1, and hobbies cricket,football,painting, which have Hobby_ID: 1, 2 and 3, your Hobbies_Names table would look like this:
Name_Id | Hobby_ID
---------|----------|
1 | 1
1 | 2
1 | 3
Then you could make a SQL query that selects all Hobbies, where Name_ID = 1 for example
