I found that UNPIVOT is able to automatically exclude fields that have NULL values. However, CROSS APPLY-VALUES method is not able to do that. Does anyone know how to automatically exclude NULL value fields from CROSS APPLY-VALUES? Let's say, exclude field Field3 and Field4 if they contain NULL values.
SELECT
E.FieldA,
E.FieldB,
E.FieldC,
DBParam.Display,
DBParam.Value
INTO DBParam
FROM
Map_Data AS E
CROSS APPLY (VALUES (Field1, 'Field1'),
(Field2, 'Field2'),
(Field3, 'Field3'),
(Field4, 'Field4')
) AS DBParam(Value, Display)
Instead of using VALUES
, use SELECT
:
SELECT E.FieldA, E.FieldB, E.FieldC,
DBParam.Display, DBParam.Value
INTO DBParam
FROM Map_Data E CROSS APPLY
(SELECT Value, Display
FROM (SELECT Field1 as Value, 'Field1' as Display UNION ALL
SELECT Field2, 'Field2' UNION ALL
SELECT Field3, 'Field3' UNION ALL
SELECT Field4, 'Field4'
) vd
WHERE Value is not null
) as DBParam(Value, Display);