Question

I have a SELECT which is returning me data in the following form…

ID             Question             Answer
1              Any Good?            Yes
1              Happy?               No
1              Good Staff?          Yes
1              Return?              N/A
2              Any Good?            No
2              Happy?               No
2              Good Staff?          Yes
2              Return               N/A
...

I need this in the following form…

ID       Any Good?   Happy?   Good Staff?   Return?
1        Yes         No       Yes           N/A
2        No          No       Yes           N/A
...

The ‘Answer’ column in my top query is computed using a CASE .. WHEN. I was thinking maybe the PIVOT clause could help me. This seems to require aggregation though. I don’t need to aggregate, just transpose.

I don’t mind having to specify each Answer explicitly in the solution (I’m guessing I’ll have to do that anyway).

Anyone know the best way of doing this?

Answer 1

Have you tried something like

SELECT  *
FROM    (
            SELECT  ID,
                    Question,
                    Answer
            FROM    @Table1
        ) t
PIVOT (MAX(Answer) FOR Question IN ([Any Good?],[Happy?],[Good Staff?],[Return?])) p