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Asked: 2026-05-11T15:37:50+00:00

I have an MS Access database that contains translated sentences in source-target pairs (a

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I have an MS Access database that contains translated sentences in source-target pairs (a translation memory for fellow users of CAT tools). Somewhat annoyingly, source and target are not stored in separate columns, but in rows linked by ID, like this:

+---+----+--------------+ |id |lang|    text      | +---+----+--------------+   1   a     lang a text   1   b     lang b text    2   a     more a text...   2   b     more b text... +---+----+--------------+

What SQL could I use to turn that into a table such as:

+---+--------------+--------------+ |id | lang A       | lang B       | +---+--------------+--------------+  1   lang a text    lang b text  2   more a text... more b text...

Performance doesn’t matter here, since would I only need to do this once in a while, and the db isn’t huge (only a few thousand rows).

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  1. A crosstab query should suit.

    TRANSFORM First([Text]) AS LangText SELECT ID, First([Text]) FROM Table  GROUP BY ID PIVOT lang

    Further information: http://allenbrowne.com/ser-67.html

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