How do I go about this? Creating table while looping through dates?

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How do I do this? Creating table while looping through dates?
I have a table with information like:
ID---Date---Status
1-------04/23-----Open
1-------04/25-----Open
2-------04/24-----Closed
3-------04/26-----Closed
What I want to do is create another table based on this per ID, but have all the dates/statuses on the same line as that ID number (as additional columns). The problem is that the number of columns needed is to be dynamically decided by the number of dates.
To illustrate my example, I'm looking to achieve the following:
ID---04/23 Status---04/24--Status---04/25--Status---04/26--Status
1----Open--------------<null>-------------Open---------------<null>
2----<null>------------Closed-------------<null>-------------<null>
3----<null>------------<null>-------------<null>-------------Closed
What would be the best way to go about this?
Can someone please point me in the right direction?
Would I need to do some looping?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

thedunnyman wrote:
How do I do this? Creating table while looping through dates?
I have a table with information like:
ID---Date---Status
1-------04/23-----Open
1-------04/25-----Open
2-------04/24-----Closed
3-------04/26-----Closed
What I want to do is create another table based on this per ID, but have all the dates/statuses on the same line as that ID number (as additional columns). The problem is that the number of columns needed is to be dynamically decided by the number of dates.
To illustrate my example, I'm looking to achieve the following:
ID---04/23 Status---04/24--Status---04/25--Status---04/26--Status
1----Open--------------<null>-------------Open---------------<null>
2----<null>------------Closed-------------<null>-------------<null>
3----<null>------------<null>-------------<null>-------------Closed
What would be the best way to go about this?
Can someone please point me in the right direction?
Would I need to do some looping?
Thanks in advance!I hope you are asking about writing a query to DISPLAY the data that way ... not to actually create such a massively denormalized table ....