Question

I have table one which looks like this. And I want to get data like

1.2, “My name is ” , 1.6, “Earl” ,12345, “Rock Hard Awesome”

I don’t think it is possible with this schema but wanted to see if I am wrong. I tried a cross join but got ever possibility not just the actual values.

What is supposed to be accomplished is the values table is written a lot of times (for a ton of values) but the description table has the unique values that are static and by putting them in a separate table they do not get written over and over.

Values Table
Column names = DataID1|DataID1Value|DataID2|DataID2Value|DataID3|DataID3Value
Row values   = 1        1.2          2       1.6         3        12345

Description Table
Column names = DescriptionID1|Description
Row value   = 1               "My name is"
Row value   = 2               "Earl"
Row value   = 3               "Rock Hard Awesome"

Answer 1

How about this:

SELECT DISTINCT v.DataID1Value, d1.Description, 
                v.DataID2Value, d2.Description, 
                v.DataID3Value, d3.Description
  FROM Values v
  INNER JOIN Description d1 on d1.DescriptionID = v.DataID1
  INNER JOIN Description d2 on d2.DescriptionID = v.DataID2
  INNER JOIN Description d3 on d3.DescriptionID = v.DataID3