Question

I have already googled for this

     I have a Table with following structure in SQL 2000   ID ContactName Designation  1  A           CEO  2  B           ABC  3  C           DEF  4  D           GHI 

I need the Output as follows

 ContactName1 Contactname2 ContactName3 ContactName4  A CEO        B ABC         C DEF         D GHI 

Any Suggestions ?

Answer 1

It occurs to me that a lot of the examples are for cross tab queries involving aggregation, which yours does not appear to need. While I do not necessarily condone Dynamic SQL, the below should give you the results you want.

Create table #Contacts (id int) Declare @ContactTypes int Declare @CAD varchar(100) Declare @I int Declare @sql nvarchar(4000) Set @i = 1 Select @ContactTypes =    Sum(sub.Types)  from ( Select Count(1) as Types from contacts group by ContactName, Designation) as sub Print @ContactTypes While @i <= @ContactTypes Begin     set @sql = 'alter table #Contacts Add  ContactName' +      Cast(@I as varchar(10)) + ' varchar(100)'     exec sp_executesql @sql     Set @I = @i + 1 End Insert into #Contacts (id) values (1) Set @i = 1 Declare crsPivot  cursor  for Select ContactName + ' ' + Designation from contacts open crsPivot Fetch next from crsPivot into @CAD While (@@Fetch_Status = 0) Begin        Set @sql = 'Update  #Contacts  set ContactName'      + Cast(@I as varchar(10)) +' = ' + quotename(@CAD,'''')     exec sp_executesql @sql     Set @i = @i + 1     Fetch next from crsPivot into @CAD End close crsPivot Deallocate crsPivot select * From #Contacts