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sql server programming : How do you produce multiple columns based on multiple rows?

sydney.luu NO[at]SPAM gmail.com
4/14/2005 6:53:30 PM

Hi,

If I have a table with the following structure/data:

CommentID Comment
---------------------
1 YELLOW
2 BLACK
3 RED
---------------------

I want to produce resultset that looks like this in a SELECT
statement (3 header columns and 1 row of data).

Col1 Col2 Col3
------------------
YELLOW BLACK RED

Thanks in advance!
Sydney Luu

oj
4/14/2005 7:18:39 PM

you can search the archive for 'crosstab' if you have some fancy report.
for this particular one, this should do:

select col1=max(case commentid when 1 then comment end),
col2=max(case commentid when 2 then comment end),
col3=max(case commentid when 2 then comment end)
from tb
--group by pkid

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-oj

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Simic Marko
4/14/2005 7:20:02 PM

This article may give an idea how to do that
http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=2955

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Adam Machanic
4/14/2005 10:13:11 PM

http://www.aspfaq.com/show.asp?id=2462

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