I had a developer in my company come to me recently with a unique request. He asked if there was any way for sql to return a result set that was flopped. In other words he wanted the rows to be columns and the columns to be rows.
So that a result set like this:
Col1 Col2 Col3
A B C
D E F
would look like this:
ColName Val1 Val2
Col1 A D
Col2 B E
Col3 C F
Seems like this is one of those cool things you might can do with SQL but probably shouldn’t. Well I couldn’t resist the challenge, so here goes. If there is some better way to accomplish this I would love to see improvements.
Creating a PDF from a Stored Procedure in SQL Server
A short but interesting article, the author has figured out a way to create a PDF from a stored procedure without using a third party library.
2019-09-20 (first published: 2003-08-26)
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