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honzo
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Posted - 2013-10-27 : 06:39:03

Hello everybody,
i,m new in sql and i have a problem. I was trying to sort it out by myself, but i dont know how. I have obtain a table1 from xml, in this table i'v got two clumns. One is for job description and the other one is for name. Problem is, that I need this table in different format. I need table with 4 columns, where each column is for specific job. How can I do it? I dont want to transpose table because I want adding only names. Please help me.
thank you Honzo.

honzo
Starting Member

2 Posts

Posted - 2013-10-27 : 06:41:20

here is a link for tables, what i need to do. Sorry for previous picture. Honza

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visakh16
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52326 Posts

Posted - 2013-10-27 : 14:30:41

This is called pivoting. you can achieve it like this


SELECT MAX(CASE WHEN jobposition = 'Teacher' THEN name END) AS teacher,
MAX(CASE WHEN jobposition = 'programmer' THEN name END) AS programmer,
MAX(CASE WHEN jobposition = 'welder' THEN name END) AS welder,
MAX(CASE WHEN jobposition = 'painter' THEN name END) AS painter
FROM Table

Another way is to PIVOT


SELECT *
FROM Table t
PIVOT (MAX(name) FOR jobposition IN ([teacher],[programmer],[welder],[painter]))p

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