SQL Convert column to row

Question

My table has the following columns:

A  |  B  |  C  |  D  |  E  |  F  

I want to displays this as follow:

MyColumn  |  MyCol         


        

Answer 1

If I'm understanding you correctly you can do this with a union:

SELECT A as MyColumn, B as MyColumn2
UNION
SELECT C as MyColumn, D as MyColumn2
UNION
SELECT E as MyColumn, F as MyColumn2

If your datatypes aren't the same for the matching columns then you'll need to convert the datatype first, so something like:

SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), A) as MyColumn, CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), B) as MyColumn2
UNION
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), C) as MyColumn, CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), D) as MyColumn2
UNION
SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), E) as MyColumn, CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), F) as MyColumn2