Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/06/96 11:35

(wgerrard@gmail.com) writes:
> Where
> documentname is the name of the document
> clientguid is the unique identifier for my patient
> docguid is the unique id for the document
> displayname is the dataitem (e.g. diagnosis)
> valuetext is the "answer" (e.g. kidney failure)
> valuenum is used instead if the valuetext is an integer (e.g.
> number of toes)
>
> I am trying to split/change this table so that I have a different table
> per document, with one row per patient occurance with the displaynames
> as columns.
>
> I have been using the following but it is slow and for large tables
> takes hours (literally) to run:-

I will have to admit that I don't really understand what the result
is to be. Could you post some sample data (preferrably as INSERT
statements), and the desired result?



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