Ted,
I asume you are referring to the "pivot tables" article. That article is
about creating news rows and not about creating new columns. I am looking
for sql code that will create a variable number of columns on the fly.
Thanks,
John
"John W" <John.Wisnieff_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
news:PcuE9.6$4B4.179_at_news.oracle.com...
> Ted, thanks, I'll review the article.
>
> "Ted McCabe" <theom_at_gte.net> wrote in message
> news:HjAD9.5818$mL2.5112_at_nwrddc01.gnilink.net...
> > John:
> > The September/October 2002 Oracle Magazine has a "how to" in it.
> > http://technet.oracle.com/oramag/content.html
> > HTH
> > tED
> > "John W" <John.Wisnieff_at_oracle.com> wrote in message
> > news:T7AD9.16$lF3.141_at_news.oracle.com...
> > > I need to do a crosstab query in Oracle where the values from one
field
> > > become the column headers in the final query result.
> > > An example of this is taking a table that looks like:
> > >
> > > sample_id, test_desc, result
> > > 1, Moisture, 23.4
> > > 1, Carbon, 32.5
> > > 1, Sulfur, .0023
> > > 2, Moisture, 54.2
> > > 2, Carbon, 12.2
> > > 2, Sulfur,
> > > 3, Sulfur, .023
> > >
> > > and returning a result that looks like this:
> > >
> > > sample_id, Moisture, Carbon, Sulfur, ...
> > > 1, 23.4, 23.4, 32.5, .0023
> > > 2, 54.2, 12.2,
> > > 3, , , .023
> > >
> > >
> > > However I find no crosstab functionality in Oracle. All I see in
> > researching
> > > this is a technique to manually create a DECODE statement for a fixed
> > number
> > > of columns. Since the number of columns for this query can vary this
> > option
> > > will not work and this technique is not a true crosstab query. Does
> anyone
> > > know of a way to do a crosstab query in Oracle similar to those that
can
> > be
> > > done by desktop databases such as Paradox or MS Acesss?
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 26 2002 - 10:23:20 CST
