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Separate columns to rows

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daniel50096230
Yak Posting Veteran

99 Posts

Posted - 2013-12-04 : 01:34:48

Hi, I has the following columns. How can I separate those columns into separate rows.

Eg.

ColumnA ColumnB ColumnC
Ice Lemon Tea
Ice Coca Cola

Result

Column
Ice
Lemon
Tea
Ice
Coca
Cola

madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2013-12-04 : 02:02:09

Select ColumnA from table
union all
Select ColumnB from table
union all
Select ColumnC from table

Madhivanan

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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-12-04 : 06:16:37

two other alternatives


declare @c table
(
ColumnA varchar(100),
ColumnB varchar(100),
 ColumnC varchar(100)
 )
 insert @c
values ('Ice','Lemon','Tea'),
('Ice','Coca','Cola')

select col
from @c
cross apply (values (ColumnA),(ColumnB),(ColumnC))t1(Col)


select col
from @c
unpivot (col for val in (ColumnA,ColumnB,ColumnC))u

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