• Alan.B (9/17/2013)


    Well done Magoo; I knew there was a much better way but drew a blank.

    Jeff Moden (9/16/2013)


    Just to backup Maggo's solution... the method he used is called a "CROSSTAB". You could also use a PIVOT although the CROSSTAB solution is usually a touch faster. Such a solution is one of the better ones because it only has to make a pass at the table one time. To wit, it's a common solution for "pivoting" EAV tables of this nature.

    I wish I had read Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns[/url] before putting my query together.

    🙂

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


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    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)