How to transform vertical data into horizontal data with SQL?

Question

I have a table \"Item\" with a number of related items, like so:

ID   Rel_ID  Name  RelRank
---  ------  ----  -------
1    1       foo   1
2    1       bar          


        

Answer 1

if the names that you listed are static,my below query that i runned sucessfully in sqlfiddle will work

SELECT rel_id,
MAX (DECODE (rel_id, '1', DECODE (relrank, '1', name) , '2',DECODE (relrank, '1', name))) NAME1,
MAX (DECODE (rel_id, '1', DECODE (relrank, '2', name))) NAME2,
MAX (DECODE (rel_id, '1', DECODE (relrank, '3', name))) NAME3
FROM supportContacts
GROUP BY rel_id

heres the SQL fiddle

http://sqlfiddle.com/#!4/480e2/11