How to join by column name

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Published on 2012-11-06T16:58:36Z Indexed on 2012/11/06 16:59 UTC
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I have a table T1 such that

gsdv   |nsdv  |esdv
-------------------
228.90 |216.41|0.00

and a table T2 such that

ds                 |nm
--------------------------
'Non-Revenue Sales'|'ESDV'
'Gross Sales'      |'GSDV'
'Net Sales'        |'NSDV'

How do I get the following table?

ds                 |nm    |val
---------------------------------
'Non-Revenue Sales'|'ESDV'|0.00
'Gross Sales'      |'GSDV'|228.90
'Net Sales'        |'NSDV'|216.41

I know that I can this by doing the following

SELECT ds,nm,esdv val FROM T1,T2 WHERE nm = 'esdv'
UNION
SELECT ds,nm,gsdv val FROM T1,T2 WHERE nm = 'gsdv'
UNION
SELECT ds,nm,nsdv val FROM T1,T2 WHERE nm = 'nsdv'

but I am looking for a more generic/nicer solution. I am using Sybase, but if you can think of a way to do this with other DBMS, please let me know. Thanks.

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