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Sort of an inverse cross-tab :&gt;).<br />
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Try:<br />
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Select 'Input1' from yourtable where Input1 = 'YourValue' <br />
Union <br />
Select 'Input2' from yourtable where Input2 = 'YourValue'<br />
Union<br />
Select 'Input3' from yourtable where Input3 = 'YourValue'<br />
Union<br />
Select 'Input4' from yourtable where Input4 = 'YourValue'
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Sort of an inverse cross-tab :>).

Try:

Select 'Input1' from yourtable where Input1 = 'YourValue'
Union
Select 'Input2' from yourtable where Input2 = 'YourValue'
Union
Select 'Input3' from yourtable where Input3 = 'YourValue'
Union
Select 'Input4' from yourtable where Input4 = 'YourValue'

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Hi,<br />
Im trying to find the name of a column using a value in that column. &nbsp;I know it could be ambigious, but I'll have to deal with that.<br />
What I have is a table like:<br />
ID | Input1 | Input2 | Input3 | Input4<br />
--------------------------<wbr />----------<wbr />--------<br />
1 &nbsp;| front &nbsp; | back &nbsp; &nbsp;| top &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;| side<br />
2 &nbsp;| water | fire &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;| earth &nbsp; | air<br />
--------------------------<wbr />----------<wbr />--------<br />
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I have the ID and one of the values in the table, but I need to be able to find the column that that value belongs to.<br />
Is this possible?<br />
Thanks<br />
D.<br />
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Find column name by value

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