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  • Hmmm... All those ORs in the ON clauses looks pretty messy. Here's an alternate way but I haven't tested to see if it performs better:

    DECLARE @T1 TABLE (comp_name VARCHAR(10))

    DECLARE @T2 TABLE (comp_name VARCHAR(10))

    DECLARE @T3 TABLE (comp_name VARCHAR(10))

    DECLARE @T4 TABLE (comp_name VARCHAR(10))

    INSERT INTO @T1

    SELECT 'comp1' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp2' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp3'

    UNION ALL SELECT 'comp4' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp5' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp6'

    INSERT INTO @T2

    SELECT 'comp2' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp3' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp4'

    UNION ALL SELECT 'comp7' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp8' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp9'

    UNION ALL SELECT 'comp10'

    INSERT INTO @T3

    SELECT 'comp1' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp2' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp3'

    UNION ALL SELECT 'comp4' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp6'

    INSERT INTO @T4

    SELECT 'comp1' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp2' UNION ALL SELECT 'comp3'

    UNION ALL SELECT 'comp6'

    --Tbl1Tbl2Tbl3Tbl4

    --comp1Nullcomp1comp1

    --comp2comp2comp2comp2

    --comp3comp3comp3comp3

    --comp4comp4comp4Null

    --comp5NullNullNull

    --comp6Nullcomp6comp6

    --Nullcomp7NullNull

    --Nullcomp8NullNull

    --Nullcomp9NullNull

    --Nullcomp10NullNull

    ;WITH AllComputers AS (

    SELECT comp_name FROM @T1 UNION

    SELECT comp_name FROM @T2 UNION

    SELECT comp_name FROM @T3 UNION

    SELECT comp_name FROM @T4)

    SELECT a.comp_name

    ,T1=(SELECT comp_name FROM @T1 b WHERE a.comp_name = b.comp_name)

    ,T2=(SELECT comp_name FROM @T2 b WHERE a.comp_name = b.comp_name)

    ,T3=(SELECT comp_name FROM @T3 b WHERE a.comp_name = b.comp_name)

    ,T4=(SELECT comp_name FROM @T4 b WHERE a.comp_name = b.comp_name)

    FROM AllComputers a

    ORDER BY CAST(STUFF(a.comp_name, 1, 4, '') AS INT)

    Almost, kinda, sorta like a CROSSTAB query.


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