Best way to get the results

Question

Hello all.
What I am attempting to accomplish is to take a database that has personal vehicle information and create a very specific format.
The Records in my table are singular per vehicle.
Code, First Name, last name, vehicle year, vehicle make, vin
PA002, Tom, Cusick, 09, Toyota, xyz1234
PA002, Tom, Cusick, 11, Chevorlet, yhn1029
PA003, Steve, Mangrove, 01, Ford, fff3345
PA003, Steve, ManGrove, 03, Ford, hhf2039
PA003, Steve, Mangrove, 06, Subaru, sed2234
What the receiveing company is looking for is a format of one record per individual with vehicles following...
Code, First Name, last name, vehicle year1, vehicle make1, vin1, vehicle year2, vehicle make2, vin2, vehicle year3, vehicle make3, vin3
PA002, Tom, Cusick, 09, Toyota, xyz1234, 11, Chevorlet, yhn1029
PA003, Steve, Mangrove, 01, Ford, fff3345, 03, Ford, hhf2039, 06, Subaru, sed2234
The first question is does anyone have suggestions on how to accomplish this ??? I was thinking of setting up variables in ODI but i don't know exactly how many vehicles any one individual might have registered in their name.
Then to add even more of a twist onto this they require that each record can only have 3 vehicles per record at most.
So if i had the following:
Code, First Name, last name, vehicle year, vehicle make, vin
PA002, Tom, Cusick, 09, Toyota, xyz1234
PA002, Tom, Cusick, 11, Chevorlet, yhn1029
PA002, Tom, Cusick, 01, Ford, fff3345
PA002, Tom, Cusick, 03, Ford, hhf2039
PA002, Tom, Cusick, 06, Subaru, sed2234
They want to see :
Code, First Name, last name, vehicle year1, vehicle make1, vin1, vehicle year2, vehicle make2, vin2, vehicle year3, vehicle make3, vin3
PA002, Tom, Cusick, 09, Toyota, xyz1234, 11, Chevorlet, yhn1029, 01, Ford, fff3345
PA002, Tom, Cusick, 03, Ford, hhf2039, 06, Subaru, sed2234
Anyone have any suggestion or ideas or thought or anything??
All suggestions and ideas are greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

In playing around and searching the web i have found a would be solution to my issue... but i have a question for the Gurus out there...
The following will work to get my information from Columns into Rows.
Select a.Membership_no,
MAX(DECODE(a.r, 1, a.vehicle_year)) v1_yr,
MAX(DECODE(a.r, 2, a.vehicle_make)) v1_make,
MAX(DECODE(a.r, 3, a.vehicle_vin)) v1_vin,
MAX(DECODE(a.r, 4, a.vehicle_year)) v2_yr,
MAX(DECODE(a.r, 5, a.vehicle_make)) v2_make,
MAX(DECODE(a.r, 6, a.vehicle_vin)) v2_vin,
MAX(DECODE(a.r, 7, a.vehicle_year)) v3_yr,
MAX(DECODE(a.r, 8, a.vehicle_make)) v3_make,
MAX(DECODE(a.r, 9, a.vehicle_vin)) v3_vin
FROM
select n1.Membership_no,
n1.vehicle_year,
n1.vehicle_make,
n1.vehicle_vin,
row_number()
OVER (Partition by n1.membership_no
order by null) r
from nsd_working n1) a
group by a.membership_no
order by a.membership_no
My question is... is there a way to convert this to be for 'n' number of records?
Can i some how use a variable in place of the number in the DECODE so I can count the number of vehicles and run the decode for that many records?
Thanks once again.