PIVOT not performing as expected

Question

Sorry for an unclear question previously; hopefully I can start again...

I have this data:

entityid    name                 stringvalue
----------- -         


        

Answer 1

The answer turned out to be this:

select *
from
(
    select entityid, [name], stringvalue as stringvalue
    from mytable
) as d
pivot
(
    min(stringvalue)
    for [name] in ([ShortDescription],[LongDescription])
)
as p

:)

The flaw was that the input table should have had 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3 for the entityid rows, respectively.

M