>>I have a table that will have a variable number of records. This is a Bed table. The facility may have 1-30 (or more) beds. I am wanting to create a stored procedure that returns a table, with the beds as columns, and each row will represent a day. So when passed the date say of 5/1/2011, they query would return a recordset that had a column for the date and then 1 column for each bed.
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>>DATE BED1 BED2 BED3 BED4
>>05/01/2011
>>05/02/2011
>>05/03/2011
>>...
>>05/31/2011
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>>The bed table simply has the BedID,BedDesc, IsActive (bit) as fields.
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>>Thanks for any suggestions
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>>Kirk.
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>Check
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6216>or google:dynamic pivoting in sql server 2000
Hi Boris,
George Mastros has a blog on Pivoting in SQL 2000, although not dynamic. It's easy to turn it to dynamic, of course:
http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DataDesign/understanding-sql-server-2000-pivotBTW, the usual answer is to perform transformation on the client (in the Reporting tool), not in T-SQL.
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