I have a query like this that tries to link Retail shops (from the table aliased as 'a') to sales reps (from the table aliased as 'e') that service the given Retail shop:
select a.id_pdv, e.apellido ||', ' || e.nombre as seller_name from tbl_pdvs a join tbl_circuitos b using (id_circuito) join tbl_frecuencias c on b.id_circuito = c.id_circuito join tbl_rutas d on c.id_ruta = d.id_ruta join tbl_vendedores e on d.vendedor = e.id_vendedor order by a.id_pdv limit 4;
id_pdv | seller_name
---------+-------------------
1000001 | COLON, CRISTOBOL
1000001 | LOPEZ, CARLOS
1000002 | COLON, CRISTOBOL
1000002 | LUGO, FERNANDO
As you can see, there are two salesmen that service this shop.
What I need is to be able to create a report that has each unique id_pdv as a row of the result set, with three columns available to show up to three salemen that are assigned to the route.
So this would give something like this:
id_pdv | seller_name1 | seller_name2 | seller_name3
---------+------------------+----------------+----------------
1000001 | COLON, CRISTOBOL | LOPEZ, CARLOS | (\N or '')
1000002 | COLON, CRISTOBOL | LUGO, FERNANDO | (\N or '')
Note that the order of the sellers does not matter.
Any tips? I've googled 'sql convert rows to columns' and got some results that appear to be mssql specific. On Stackoverflow there is an example of how to convert columns to rows using UNION, but not visa versa.
Thanks in advance!
Joshua