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Connor McDonald

Thanks for the question, Kapil.

Asked: June 12, 2018 - 6:46 am UTC

Last updated: June 16, 2018 - 1:15 am UTC

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Hi Tom,
Hope you are good.

I have a requirement where I need to display rows as columns. Suppose there are 2 rows with 4 columns each then the result should display 2*4 i.e, 8 columns. Is it possible just using SQL?

Thanks


and Connor said...

Chris has a detailed blog post on this here

https://blogs.oracle.com/sql/how-to-convert-rows-to-columns-and-back-again-with-sql-aka-pivot-and-unpivot


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What if Values are not known to you

Kapil Mittal, June 15, 2018 - 4:57 am UTC

Hi Tom,

What I understood from the link shared by you, it will work if you already know the values. How can we do it if we don't know the values.
Connor McDonald
June 15, 2018 - 6:32 am UTC

Then you probably need to resort to code. Stew Ashton has a nice routine for that here

https://stewashton.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/improved-pivot-function/

Thank You !

Kapil Mittal, June 15, 2018 - 8:12 am UTC

Thanks a lot.
Connor McDonald
June 16, 2018 - 1:15 am UTC

glad we could help
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