how to Format sql table data in required manner

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My database structure of attendance table is like this

ID   EmpName        Date             Status
1    Raj           1/12/2012             P
2    Rahul         1/12/2012             P
3    Raj           2/12/2012             P
4    Rahul         2/12/2012             P
5    Raj           3/12/2012             A
6    Rahul         3/12/2012             P
7    Raj           4/12/2012             A
8    Rahul         4/12/2012             P

And i want to customize the output in following format

EmpName  1  2  3  4
Raj      P  P  A  A
Rahul    P  P  P  P

So please help me on above issue

Posted 2-Jan-13 0:33am

AshishSarang

Updated 2-Jan-13 0:56am

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AmitGajjar 2-Jan-13 6:37am

Pivot may work for you.

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Answer 1 · 2013-01-02T01:00:00

Solution 1

PIVOT is an option. You have two approaches listed here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10976585/convert-rows-to-columns-using-pivot-in-mssql-when-columns-are-string-data-type[^]. Look for the accepted answer. And you will get a playground also to test it.

Posted 2-Jan-13 1:00am

Zoltán Zörgő