SQL Query that can return intersecting data
- by Alex
I have a hard time finding a good question title - let me just show you what I have and what the desired outcome is. I hope this can be done in SQL (I have SQL Server 2008).
1) I have a table called Contacts and in that table I have fields like these:
FirstName, LastName, CompanyName
2) Some demo data:
FirstName LastName CompanyName
John Smith Smith Corp
Paul Wade
Marc Andrews Microsoft
Bill Gates Microsoft
Steve Gibbs Smith Corp
Diane Rowe ABC Inc.
3) I want to get an intersecting list of people and companies, but companies only once. This would look like this:
Name
ABC Inc.
Bill Gates
Diane Rowe
John Smith
Marc Andrews
Microsoft
Smith Corp
Steve Gibbs
Paul Wade
Can I do this with SQL? How?
