How Do I Use PIVOT On This Data:?

Question

I have a SQL Server table that looks like this:

RESOURCE |  DESCRIPTION | VALUE
Test A      Name        | Resource A-xyz
Test A   |  Height      | 20
Test A          


        

Answer 1

In the end, I did the following:

1. Selected all distinct descriptions (more than 70!).
2. Created a table that had resource and every single distinct description as fields
3. Populated resource column distinct resource names
4. Ran a series of updates to populate remaining columns for each distinct resource name.

For example

CREATE TABLE #tb1
(
     [RESOURCE] varchar(100),
     [FIELD1]   varchar(100),
     [FIELD2]   varchar(50),
     .
     .
     .
     [LAST FIELD]  varchar(50),
)

INSERT INTO #tb1 (RESOURCE)
SELECT DISTINCT RESOURCE FROM tb2
ORDER BY Resource ASC

UPDATE #tb1 SET [FIELD1] = (SELECT VALUE FROM tb2 WHERE Resource = #tb1.Resource and  Property = [FIELD1])
.
.
.
UPDATE #tb1 SET [LAST FIELD] = (SELECT VALUE FROM tb2 WHERE Resource = #tb1.Resource and  Property = [LAST FIELD])