Re: Need help/hint creating a quiry

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_oriolecorp.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 01:12:09 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00337C22.20010626010022@fatcity.com>

> Hi all
>
> Lets say I have a table:
>
> f1 char(10)
> f2 char(2)
> f3 number
>
> where f1 is a name, f2 is a code and f3 is a number.
>
> What I want to produce is a report that looks
> something like this:
>
> F1 F2 IS A F2 is B F2 IS C .... F2 is X
>
> f1 f3 f3 f3
> f1 f3 f3 f3 (different f1 )
> etc.
>
> So I want to transpose the table. I haven't done that
> before. Is there a way to do this assuming that the
> number of distinct values in f2 can be changed at any
> time (and therefore the number of columns in my report
> can vary)?
>
> thanks for any help
>
>

The only way to have a varying number of columns is to build the query dynamically and execute it in a PL/SQL block. When the number of columns is fixed, decode() usually is the solution. I'd rather change the specs.

Regards,

Stephane Faroult
Oriole Corporation

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