Thanks Regina. It works!
Erma
>From: Regina Harter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: Inserting data from long table into wide table
>Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:56:30 -0800
>
>I believe a decode and group by would work well for you, something like:
>
>insert into tableb
>select id, sum(decode(name,'P1',value,0)), sum(decode(name,'P2',value,0)),
>...
>from tablea group by id;
>
>At 11:19 AM 3/22/01 -0800, you wrote:
>>I have a table A with the following data (Table A has 3 columns id, name,
>>value)
>>
>>id name value
>>10 P1 20
>>10 P2 60
>>10 P3 12.5
>>10 P4 26
>>20 P1 100
>>20 P2 90
>>20 P3 15
>>20 P4 36
>>30 P1 60
>>30 P2 50
>>30 P3 11.5
>>30 P4 13
>>.... more rows
>>
>>I want to insert this data into table B as follows (Table B has 4 columns
>>id, P1, P2, P3, P4)
>>
>>
>>id P1 P2 P3 P4
>>10 20 60 12.5 26
>>20 100 90 15 36
>>30 60 50 11.5 13
>>... more rows
>>
>>Can you suggest a Sql statement for the insert into table B. Thank you
>>very much in advance.
>>Erma
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