Wednesday, March 7, 2012

pivoting a recordset

I have a reference table that looks like this

id | value
==========
1,abc
1,def
1,ghi
2,def
2,jkl

I want these values to go horizontally into another table matched on id, to look like this:

id | value
========
1,abc def ghi
2, def jkl

I built a cursor to parse through it but was taking forever (there's 185,000 records in the reference table). Any idea's on the fastest way to perform this function?never mind, I added an index to the destination table and it finished in 24 seconds :eek:

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