Changing the physical orientation of a table using SQL

I have data in a table in following way:


Dept
====
Deptno         Dname
10             aaa
20             bbb
30             ccc
40             ddd

With the help of an SQL query, I need the result in the following way:

Depno     10     20      30    40
Dname     aaa    bbb    ccc    ddd

I am using ORALCE 8.1.7 on Sun 2.0.8


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The following script will pivot table t as you requested: 

Create table t (Deptno  integer,
                Dname char(5));
insert into t values (10,'aaa');
insert into t values (20,'bbb');
insert into t values (30,'ccc');
insert into t values (40,'ddd');


select max (decode (Deptno,10,to_char(Deptno),null)) as f1,
       max (decode (Deptno,20,to_char(Deptno),null)) as f2,
       max (decode (Deptno,30,to_char(Deptno),null)) as f3,
       max (decode (Deptno,40,to_char(Deptno),null)) as f4
from t
union all
select max (decode (Deptno,10,Dname,null)) as f1,
       max (decode (Deptno,20,Dname,null)) as f2,
       max (decode (Deptno,30,Dname,null)) as f3,
       max (decode (Deptno,40,Dname,null)) as f4
from t;

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This was first published in January 2002

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