On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Andy Chambers
<achambers.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a nice normalized table and need to produce a de-normalized
> view of this table (i.e. convert it
> from tall skinny, into wide short table).  In order to do this, I was
> planning on just joining the
> table to itself for each "value" that needs to be turned into a
> column.  However, it turns out there's
> 96 values so I run into the "only 64 tables in a join" constraint.  Is
> there another idiom for
> doing this sort of transformation or should I just use two helper
> tables with 33 values in each and
> then join them.
>
> For those who have used other databases, is it quite common to have
> this constraint?  This seems
> like it would be quite a common problem in ETL projects (admittedly
> it's perhaps unusual to be
> using sqlite for an ETL project).
>
> Hope I've made myself clear.


You would make yourself even clearer if you gave the schema for both
the source and the desired target tables.

>
> Cheers,
> Andy
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