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wowachr
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Posted - 2012-03-06 : 10:36:53

Hi,

I have a small SQL problem and would really appreciate some help. I import following tables into a database:

Name_____ Hobby
__________Football____Tennis____Baseball____PS3____...
John_________x_______________________________x_____...
Jack_______________________________x_______________...
Abby_________________________________________x_____...

Now I would like to change this table, so I get:

Name______Hobby

John______Football
John______PS3
Jack______Baseball
Abby______PS3
...

Does anybody have an idea how I could do it?

Thanks a lot in advance!

X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2012-03-06 : 11:34:25

can you post the DDL?

Is football, tennis, baseball, etc all their own columns?

Brett

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theboyholty
Posting Yak Master

226 Posts

Posted - 2012-03-06 : 11:36:02

In think UNPIVOT might be what you need here:

[url]http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/06/07/sql-server-pivot-and-unpivot-table-examples/[/url]

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Transact Charlie
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3451 Posts

Posted - 2012-03-06 : 11:37:36

can you post the table definition for the first table please? I can't tell what it looks like. Or what the data is like

Please provide a script like


CREATE TABLE #hobbies (
    [Name] VARCHAR(50)
    , <Rest of columns>
    )
INSERT #hobbies ....

Then we can help out. You don't need to put much data in there. Just a sample.

Charlie
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Msg 3903, Level 16, State 1, Line 1736
The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION

X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2012-03-06 : 11:44:51

maybe



CREATE TABLE myTable99 
(Name varchar(10), Football char(1), Tennis char(1), Baseball char(1), PS3 char(1))
GO

INSERT INTO myTable99(Name, Football, Tennis, Baseball, PS3)
SELECT 'John','x',  null, null, 'x'  UNION ALL
SELECT 'Jack',null, null, 'x',  null UNION ALL
SELECT 'Abby',null, null, null, 'x'

SELECT * FROM myTable99

SELECT Name, 'Football' AS Hobby
FROM myTable99
WHERE Football IS NOT NULL
UNION ALL
SELECT Name, 'Tennis' AS Hobby
FROM myTable99
WHERE Tennis IS NOT NULL
UNION ALL
SELECT Name, 'Baseball' AS Hobby
FROM myTable99
WHERE Baseball IS NOT NULL
UNION ALL
SELECT Name, 'PS3' AS Hobby
FROM myTable99
WHERE PS3 IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY Name, 2
GO

DROP TABLE myTable99
GO

Brett

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