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Rows to Columns

From: cfeder <cfeder_at_ctp.com>
Date: 1997/05/02
Message-ID: <336A6814.5277@ctp.com>#1/1

With Oracle 7.3, how does get a SQL statement to change rows into columns ?

Here are some example tables:
create table Person (idPerson, namePerson not null , primary key idPerson);
create table PhoneUsage (idPhoneUsage,descrPhoneUsage not null, primary key idPhoneUsage);
/* 1=Personal : 2=Business, 3=Fax, 4=Mobile, ect */ create table Person_Phone( idPerson, Phone_number, idPhoneUsage

    , primary key ( idPerson, idPhoneUsage , Phone_number));

The following view gets at syntax error with the nested select:

create view PersonPhones
(idPerson, namePerson, business_Phone, home_Phone,Fax_Phone) as SELECT P.idPerson, P.namePerson
, (select C.Phone_number

      from Person_Phone C
   where C.idPerson = P.idPerson and C.idPhoneUsage = 1 )
, (select C.Phone_number

      from Person_Phone C
   where C.idPerson = P.idPerson and C.idPhoneUsage = 2 )
, (select C.Phone_number

      from Person_Phone C
   where C.idPerson = P.idPerson and C.idPhoneUsage = 3 ) from Person P;

Anyone have an alternative ? Received on Fri May 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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