Thanks Keith and Igor, that works both fine indeed.
Should know this by know.

RBS

On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 6:27 PM Igor Tandetnik <i...@tandetnik.org> wrote:

> On 10/23/2019 12:28 PM, Bart Smissaert wrote:
> > 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
>
> Something along these lines, perhaps:
>
> select id, entry_date,
>    max(case term_text when 'Weight' then numeric_value else 0 end) weight,
>    max(case term_text when 'Height' then numeric_value else 0 end) height,
>    max(case term_text when 'BMI' then numeric_value else 0 end) bmi
> from num_values
> group by id, entry_date;
>
> --
> Igor Tandetnik
>
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