Question

I have three table in SQL Server 2008:

Students

    StudentId           Name
      1                 Ghanshyam
      2                 John
      3                 Pravin

Exams

   ExamId               ExamName
     1                  English
     2                  Math
     3                  SS
     4                  Mechanical

Marks

   MarksId       StudentId     ExamId     Marks
       1              1           1         90
       2              1           2         45
       3              1           3         89
       4              1           4         56
       5              1           5         93

I want to get result display in following format:

   Name         English  Math  SS   Mechnical
   Ghanshyam       90     45   89     56
   John            89     38   78     87
   Pravin          98     40   48     38

How can I get the above result based on above three table

Answer 1

This is an example of Pivot tables. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177410.aspx
for the explanation of how to do it in MS SQL Server. Note that it is also possible to do this with standard SQL, though a bit more complicated.