Question

I have a table such as:

John email1 email2 email3 ...and so on

I need to transform the dataset to this format:

John email1
John email2
John email3

it could be exported out to Excel and the imported back in if that would be easier. Thanks…

Answer 1

What do you mean fix? You could just do something like this:

SELECT name+' '+email1 as email1,
       name+' '+email2 as email2, 
       name+' '+email3 as email3, 
       name+' '+email3 as email3, 
       ...
FROM table

The above was written before I saw the formating … this I believe is what you want — only tested on mssqlserver

declare @t table
(
  name varchar(max),
  email1 varchar(max),
  email2 varchar(max),
  email3 varchar(max),
  email4 varchar(max)
)

insert into @t 
 values ('name1a','email1a','email2a','email3a','email4a')
insert into @t  
 values ('name2b','email1b','email2b','email3b','email4b')

 select * from @t

SELECT name, email 
FROM
(
SELECT name, email1, email2, email3, email4
FROM @t) p
UNPIVOT
   (email FOR emails IN 
      (email1, email2, email3, email4)
)AS unpvt