Let's assume a data model like this:
Books could have multiple authors as well as authors could have written multiple books. If a book and its authors are selected by the following statement (this piece of code is generated by access 2016):
SELECT book.book_id, book.title, book.year_of_publication,
book.pagecount, author.firstname, author.lastname
FROM book
INNER JOIN (author INNER JOIN link_author_book ON author.auth_id =
link_author_book.author)
ON book.book_id = link_author_book.book
WHERE (((book.title)="Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, 2nd
Edition"));
the result will be this:
This is perfectly fine and all as expected. Somethimes allthough its a little bit unpractical. In my case I would like to have the different authors not listed in rows but instead in columns. It should look like this:
My question is: is it possible to build something like this in MS Access 2016 and how can I do that? It is not neccessary that this is done in SQL oder VBA or so, I just want to get an output looking like this :)
Thx in advance
PS: If this is a duplicated question I am sorry but at the moment i don't even know how to call/describe my problem so it is a little bit tricky to google for a solution...
