Question

my table has two column columnname and data

i issue a simple sql like select * from mytable then data is showing like

colname               data
-------------------   -----------
JID                   41185
WID                   0
AccountReference      LH169
OEReference           Ari002
InvoiceNumber         0

but i want to display data in different way like

JID     WID    AccountReference   OEReference     InvoiceNumber
41185   0      LH169              Ari002          0

if i need to show data horizentally then what sql i need to issue……….please help.

Answer 1

SELECT  JID,WID,AccountReference,OEReference,InvoiceNumber
FROM    
( 
    SELECT colname, data FROM YourTableName
) 
p 
PIVOT 
( 
    Max(data) FOR colname 
    IN ([JID],[WID],[AccountReference],[OEReference],[InvoiceNumber])
) AS pvt

you can try below links. contains tutorials for the usage of Pivot.

Link1

Link2