>>>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.
>>>
>>>

>>>DATE              BED1         BED2       BED3       BED4
>>>05/01/2011         
>>>05/02/2011
>>>05/03/2011
>>>...
>>>05/31/2011
>>>

>>>
>>>The bed table simply has the BedID,BedDesc, IsActive (bit) as fields.
>>>
>>>Thanks for any suggestions
>>>
>>>Kirk.
>>
>>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:
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>http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/DataMgmt/DataDesign/understanding-sql-server-2000-pivot
>
>BTW, the usual answer is to perform transformation on the client (in the Reporting tool), not in T-SQL.

Why is that the usual answer ?