Question

I have the following table:

Name           Rating
Engineering    1
Financials     3
Scope          1
Schedule       2
Risks          3
People         3

I would like the output to be as follows:

Engineering  Financials  Scope  Schedule  Risks  People
1            3           1      2         3      3

Using SQL query only. Can someone help me to get the correct output?

Answer 1

You are trying to PIVOT the data. SQL server has a PIVOT function that can perform this for you. To perform the PIVOT you need to decide what aggregate function to use. In my sample, I used MAX() but you can use SUM(), etc.

If you do not have a pivot function then you can can use an aggregate function with a CASE statement to do this.

Aggregate/CASE version: This version requires that you hard-code all of the names into the columns.

select 
  max(case when name = 'Engineering' then rating end) Engineering,
  max(case when name = 'Financials' then rating end) Financials,
  max(case when name = 'Scope' then rating end) Scope,
  max(case when name = 'Schedule' then rating end) Schedule,
  max(case when name = 'Risks' then rating end) Risks,
  max(case when name = 'People' then rating end) People
from yourtable

See SQL Fiddle with Demo

Static PIVOT version: You will hard code the values of the names into this query

select *
from
(
  select name, rating
  from yourtable
) src
pivot
(
  max(rating)
  for name in ([Engineering], [Financials], [Scope],
               [Schedule], [Risks], [People])
) piv

See SQL Fiddle with Demo

The above versions work great if you have a known number of columns, but if your name values are unknown, then you can use dynamic sql to PIVOT the data.

Dynamic PIVOT version:

DECLARE @cols AS NVARCHAR(MAX),
    @query  AS NVARCHAR(MAX)

select @cols = STUFF((SELECT distinct ',' + QUOTENAME(Name) 
                    from yourtable
            FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
            ).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)') 
        ,1,1,'')

set @query = 'SELECT ' + @cols + ' from 
             (
                select name, rating
                from yourtable
            ) x
            pivot 
            (
                max(rating)
                for name in (' + @cols + ')
            ) p '

execute(@query)

See SQL Fiddle with Demo

All three versions will produce the same result:

| ENGINEERING | FINANCIALS | SCOPE | SCHEDULE | RISKS | PEOPLE |
----------------------------------------------------------------
|           1 |          3 |     1 |        2 |     3 |      3 |