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dtopicdragovic

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June 17, 2011 at 7:07 am

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Hello everyone!
I am trying to pull out some data from table that looks like this:
ID Customer SUBJECT INTERESTED
1 1 SubjectA True
2 1 SubjectB True
3 1 SubjectC False
4 2 SubjectA True
5 2 SubjectB False
6 2 SubjectC True
What I want to get is result with following columns:
Customer SubjectOfInterest SubjectOfNOInterest
where we would list all customers with their SubjectOfInterest (where Interested = True) and SubjectofNotInterest (where Interested = False)
Can anyone please help me in creating this query?
If you need more info please let me know.
Thanks

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PaulB-TheOneAndOnly SSC Guru Points: 66772 More actions · Answer 1

One approach would be a pivot temp table.

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SGT_squeequal SSCertifiable Points: 7167 More actions · Answer 2

from the info you have provided i assume that the data is in 1 table so your query should looks something like this

select collum, collum, collum

from table

where collum ='True'

and collumn 2='false

ie

select ID, Customer, SUBJECT, INTERESTED

from customers

where Interested = True

and SubjectofNotInterest = False

***The first step is always the hardest *******

pompy704 Grasshopper Points: 11 More actions · Answer 3

SELECT * into #true

FROM table t

WHERE subectinterested = 'true'

SELECT * into #false

FROM table t

WHERE subectinterested = 'false'

SELECT t.customer, t.subject, f.subject

FROM #true t

INNER JOIN #false f

ON t.customer = f.customer

Would that work?

Mark Cowne One Orange Chip Points: 26968 More actions · Answer 4

Try this

DECLARE @T TABLE(ID INT,Customer INT,SUBJECT VARCHAR(10), INTERESTED VARCHAR(5))

INSERT INTO @T(ID,Customer,SUBJECT,INTERESTED)

SELECT 1, 1, 'SubjectA', 'True' UNION ALL

SELECT 2, 1, 'SubjectB', 'True' UNION ALL

SELECT 3, 1, 'SubjectC', 'False' UNION ALL

SELECT 4, 2, 'SubjectA', 'True' UNION ALL

SELECT 5, 2, 'SubjectB', 'False' UNION ALL

SELECT 6, 2, 'SubjectC', 'True';

SELECT T1.Customer,

STUFF((SELECT ','+T2.SUBJECT AS "text()"

FROM @T T2

WHERE T2.Customer=T1.Customer

AND INTERESTED='True'

ORDER BY T2.SUBJECT

FOR XML PATH('')),

1,1,'') AS SubjectOfInterest,

STUFF((SELECT ','+T2.SUBJECT AS "text()"

FROM @T T2

WHERE T2.Customer=T1.Customer

AND INTERESTED='False'

ORDER BY T2.SUBJECT

FOR XML PATH('')),

1,1,'') AS SubjectOfNOInterest

FROM @T T1

GROUP BY T1.Customer

ORDER BY T1.Customer;

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dtopicdragovic Old Hand Points: 365 More actions · Answer 5

Thanks to all for so fast replies!

The last one by Mark seems to be the closest to what I need.

I already have a table that has a same structure as the one created in query. The only thing is that I need to have SubjectsOfInterest on different lines when there is more than one. So in this case Customer 1 would have 3 rows (2 for each SubjectOfInterest and 1 for subjectOfNOInterest)

Any idea?

Thanks

Mark Cowne One Orange Chip Points: 26968 More actions · Answer 6

Couple of possibilities

SELECT Customer,SUBJECT AS SubjectOfInterest,'' AS SubjectOfNOInterest

FROM @T

WHERE INTERESTED='True'

UNION ALL

SELECT Customer,'' AS SubjectOfInterest,SUBJECT AS SubjectOfNOInterest

FROM @T

WHERE INTERESTED='False'

ORDER BY Customer,SubjectOfInterest,SubjectOfNOInterest;

WITH SubjectOfInterest AS (

SELECT Customer,SUBJECT,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Customer ORDER BY SUBJECT) AS rn

FROM @T

WHERE INTERESTED='True'),

SubjectOfNOInterest AS (

SELECT Customer,SUBJECT,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY Customer ORDER BY SUBJECT) AS rn

FROM @T

WHERE INTERESTED='False')

SELECT COALESCE(T1.Customer,T2.Customer) AS Customer,

T1.SUBJECT AS SubjectOfInterest,

T2.SUBJECT AS SubjectOfNOInterest

FROM SubjectOfInterest T1

FULL OUTER JOIN SubjectOfNOInterest T2 ON T1.Customer=T2.Customer AND T1.rn=T2.rn

ORDER BY Customer;

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dtopicdragovic Old Hand Points: 365 More actions · Answer 7

This is great!!!! It gives exactley what I was looking for.

Now I have to look in detail and try to understand 🙂

Thank you one more time

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004425 More actions · Answer 8

It's not my job to judge, but nice job, Mark. 🙂

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