Table separator after database query

Question

I'm looking for a way to insert a table separator/line break
after an output from SQL Server based on last name or shift. For
example, here's a basic table output, showing the manager, their
employee, and the shift they work:
MGR | EMPLOYEE | SHIFT
Smith, John | Anderson, Thomas | 1st
Smith, John | Jackson, Randy | 1st
Miller, Tammy | Cowell, Simon | 2nd
Johnson, Johnny | Abdul, Paula | 1st
Smith, John | Marshall, Sarah | 3rd
Miller, Tammy | Rabbit, Peter | 3rd
The users want to be able to sort by the managers last name,
with a separator after each manager like so:
MGR | EMPLOYEE | SHIFT
Johnson, Johnny | Abdul, Paula | 1st
Smith, John | Anderson, Thomas | 1st
Smith, John | Jackson, Randy | 1st
Miller, Tammy | Cowell, Simon | 2nd
Miller, Tammy | Rabbit, Peter | 3rd
Smith, John | Marshall, Sarah | 3rd
If this were sorting by shift, I could do this manually with
a select statement:
SELECT mgr, employee, shift
FROM some_database
WHERE (shift = 1)
ORDER BY mgr
and then put in table code with a separator like so:
<tr><td colspan="3" bgcolor="#990000"
height="2"></td></tr>
but still, I'd have to do this for each shift with another
WHERE (shift=2), etc. So this is sort of a 2 part question.
1) How to output data from database with a separator after
the mgr last name and
2) If I were to sort by shift, how could I create a loop
where I don't have to use WHERE (shift=1), (shift=2), etc, and then
a separator is put in after each shift.
Thanks.

Answer 1

look up how to use <cfoutput> tag with GROUP attribute
in cfml reference.
if you do not have one - download (free) from adobe.com
Azadi Saryev
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