Re: crosstabs and pivot tables

2004-08-25 Thread Leonardus Setiabudi
hi there this might be an extreme solution.. but i thought you could come up with just one query instead of 20 temp tables.. if you dont mind to write it :) select id, max(if(datetype='entered_date',date,'')) entered_date, max(if(datetype='modified_date',date,'')) modified_date, max(if(datetype='

re: crosstabs and pivot tables

2004-08-25 Thread Donna Hinshaw
Shawn - Maybe terminology here...but I think of a "crosstab" query as one which yields sums or averages or some such tabulation. What I need to do is just "pivot" from rows to columns. The way I've come up with is this: ORIGINAL TABLE: columns = id date datetype there are about 20 datetypes