Constructing a PIVOT - sql

Question

I think that PIVOT will help me accomplish this, but I can't get anything started. I am having serious SQL brain farts today, I need some help.
Here is the output I have now:
Id Name Question Answer
0 Test Vault A
0 Test Container 1
1 Foo Vault B
1 Foo Container 2
And this is my desired output:
Id Name Vault Container
0 Test A 1
1 Foo B 2
Can this be done?
If that is impossible or terribly complex to do, I have an alternate way to approach this. The output for my alternate query is:
Id Name VaultId ContainerId
0 Test A NULL
0 Test NULL 1
1 Foo B NULL
1 Foo NULL 2
And here I need to be able to suppress it into one row per Id/Name. I can't remember how to do either of these!

Answer 1

DECLARE #Test TABLE
(
Id INT
,[Name]VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL
,Question VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
Answer VARCHAR(10)
);
INSERT #Test VALUES (0,'test1', 'vault','a');
INSERT #Test VALUES (0,'test1', 'Container ','1');
INSERT #Test VALUES (1,'test4', 'vault','b');
INSERT #Test VALUES (1,'test4', 'Container','2');
;WITH CTE
AS
(
SELECT t.id, t.[Name], t.[Question ] ,t.Answer
FROM #Test t
)
SELECT *
FROM CTE
PIVOT ( max(answer) FOR Question IN (vault,container) ) f;

Answer 2

You could do this with a Static Pivot:
create table temp
(
id int,
name varchar(10),
question varchar(10),
answer varchar(10)
)
INSERT into temp VALUES (0,'test', 'vault','a');
INSERT into temp VALUES (0,'test', 'Container','1');
INSERT into temp VALUES (1,'foo', 'vault','b');
INSERT into temp VALUES (1,'foo', 'Container','2');
select *
from
(
select id, name, question, answer
from temp
) x
pivot
(
max(answer)
for question in ([container], [vault])
) p
drop table temp
or a dynamic pivot
DECLARE #cols AS NVARCHAR(MAX),
#query AS NVARCHAR(MAX);
select #cols = STUFF((SELECT distinct ',' + QUOTENAME(c.question)
FROM temp c
FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)')
,1,1,'')
set #query = 'SELECT id, name, ' + #cols + ' from
(
select id, name, question, answer
from temp
) x
pivot
(
max(answer)
for question in (' + #cols + ')
) p '
execute(#query)
both will give you the same results:

Answer 3

Yeah PIVOT is what you need here :). Assuming your table is called MyPivot Try:
SELECT Id, Name, [Vault], [Container]
FROM (SELECT Id, Name, Question, Answer FROM MyPivot) AS SourceTable
PIVOT (MAX(Answer) FOR Question in (Vault, Container)) as p;
EDIT: To demonstrate what that syntax means, see the following breakdown:
PIVOT (<aggregate function>(<column being aggregated>)
FOR <column that contains the values that will become column headers>
IN ( [first pivoted column], [second pivoted column])