The art of printing columns

[hantz]

there are many ways to make this happend but what is the best way
of printing sql records in non divided number of columns-say 5 columns?

say you got 10,000 names and you want to print it in 5 columns,

that is a very poor drawing of 12 records in 5 columns:
1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10
11 12
...every one of this 12 is a name

printing a name + checking if is there some ditails reffered to this name in other table column...