Select return dynamic columns
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I have two tables: Standards and Service Offerings. A Standard can have multiple Service Offerings. Each Standard can have a different number of Service Offerings associated to it.
What I need to be able to do is write a view that will return some common data and then list the service offerings on one line. For example:
Standard Id | Description | SO #1 | SO #2 | SO #3 | ... | SO #21 | SO Count
1 | One | A | B | C | ... | G | 21
2 | Two | A | | | ... | | 1
3 | Three | B | D | E | ... | | 3
I have no idea how to write this. The number of SO columns is set to a specific number (21 in this case), so we cannot exceed past that.
Any ideas on how to approach this?
A place I started is below. It just returned multiple rows for each Service Offering, when they need to be on one row.
SELECT *
FROM SERVICE_OFFERINGS
WHERE STANDARD_KEY IN (SELECT STANDARD_KEY
FROM STANDARDS)
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