SQL - How to transfor records into a single records

Try this

    DECLARE @columns VARCHAR(8000)
   DECLARE @columns2 VARCHAR(8000)
   DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(MAX)
        SET @Columns = SUBSTRING((SELECT DISTINCT ',['+state+']' FROM tbl GROUP BY state FOR XML PATH('')),2,8000)
        SET @Columns2 = SUBSTRING((SELECT DISTINCT ',case when ['+state+'] is null then ''F'' else ''T'' end AS ['+state+']' FROM tbl GROUP BY state FOR XML PATH('')),2,8000)
        SET @SQL = 'SELECT  [Name],' + @Columns2 + ' FROM 
          (Select [Name], state from tbl )  SourceData
        PIVOT
          (min(state) for state in ('+@Columns+')) pivottable 
        '
        EXEC(@sql)

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you can use pivot:-
here is an example for the same
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177410.aspx

yuching,

what I find is if I have more than Name and State as columns,  SQL server will complain with this  error
Msg 8120, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Column 'dbo.table_1' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.

The select statement is as follows
select name, address,
  max (case when State ='NY' Then 'T' else 'F' end) as NY,
  max(case when State ='WI' Then 'T' else 'F' end) as WI,
  max(case when State ='MI' Then 'T' else 'F' end) as MI,
  max(case when State ='SD' Then 'T' else 'F' end) as SD,
  max(case when State ='GA' Then 'T' else 'F' end) as GA,
  max(case when State ='FL' Then 'T' else 'F' end) as FL
From table_1
group by name

What can I do to correct the error?

yuching
what is the max() do?

Thanks.

yuching,  thanks for the extra explanation of max()