Have a table created like this: create table num_values(id integer, entry_date integer, term_text text, numeric_value Real)
For this problem I am only interested in the rows that have either 'Weight', 'Height' or 'BMI' in the term_text field and I can make table that have only these values. Now usually for a particular id and entry_date there are 3 rows for the above mentioned 3 values for term_text, but this is not always so. So, table date could be like this: id entry_date term_text, numeric_value ------------------------------------------------------ 2 40100 Weight 80 2 40100 Height 170 2 40100 BMI 27.7 2 40200 Weight 90 2 40200 Height 170 2 40200 BMI 31.1 3 38000 Weight 86 4 40100 Weight 66 4 40100 Height 160 4 40100 BMI 25.8 4 40100 Weight 67 I want to run a select (or table insert) to get the data like this id entry_date weight height bmi -------------------------------------------- 2 40100 80 170 27.7 2 40200 90 170 31.1 3 38000 86 4 40100 66 160 25.8 The multiple rows for numeric_value for the same id and entry_date I can filter out as it makes no sense to have different values on the same day (as id 4), but the problem is with the missing term_text values per id and date (as id 3) I can do the above transformation fine if there are the 3 term-text values (weight, height and bmi) per id and entry_date with a self join: select n1.id, n1.entry_date, n1.numeric_value, n2.numeric_value, n3.numeric_value from num_values n1 inner join num_values n2 on(n1.id = n2.id and n1.entry_date = n2.entry_date) inner join num_values n3 on(n1.id = n3.id and n1.entry_date = n3.entry_date) where n1.term_text = 'Weight' and n2.term_text = 'Weight' and n3.term_text = 'BMI' But this misses out on id 3 in the mentioned example data. Any suggestion how best to do this? RBS _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users