Text values in a pivot table?

Question

I have a table (in MySQL) with 3 columns:

Location    Category     Supplier

   A        Computers    Company X
   A        Printers     Company Y
   B               


        

Answer 1

I have no way to check if the query is fine, but more or less would be a query like this:

SELECT t1.Location, MAX(t1.Computers), MAX(t1.Printers),  MAX(t1.Software)

FROM (
SELECT
 t.Location,
 CASE WHEN t.Category = 'Computers' THEN
   t.Supplier
 END Computers,

 CASE WHEN t.Category = 'Printers' THEN
   t.Supplier
 END Printers,

 CASE WHEN t.Category = 'Software' THEN
   t.Supplier
 END Software,
FROM
YOUR_TABLE t
) t1
GROUP BY t1.Location