Re: How do I transpose a table?

Lee Farrant wrote:

> I think the word for this is transpose but I am not sure.
>
> I have a table which is in the following format
>
> Customer 1 Subscriber 1
> Customer 1 Subscriber 2
> Customer 1 Subscriber 3
> Customer 1 Subscriber 4
> Customer 2 Subscriber 5
> Customer 2 Subscriber 6
> Customer 3 Subscriber 7
> Customer 3 Subscriber 8
>
> I need to transform this table into the following format so there is
> only one record for each customer and the subscriber fields 1-x are
> going across the table.
>
> Customer 1 Subscriber 1 Subscriber 2 Subscriber 3 Subscriber 4
> Customer 2 Subscriber 5 Subscriber 6
> Customer 3 Subscriber 7 Subscriber 8
>
> Its unusual that a customer will more than 4 subscriptions but
> basically I will not no which customer has the most subscriptions
> until a process the table in some way, I assume I would need this
> information to decide how many subscription columns to create on the
> new table. am i making sense?
>
> Is there any code SQL out there that will already do this that I could
> edit as I am very stuck.
>
> thanks
>
> Lee leefarrant_at_hotmail.com

You can use DECODE to create columns from fields.

Daniel Morgan Received on Wed May 15 2002 - 13:52:18 CDT