Afficher dynamiquement les lignes sous forme de colonnes

Oracle 11g et Sql Server 2005+ contiennent tous deux une commande pivot qui accomplira ce que vous voulez.

http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/PIVOT

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177410 .aspx

Sinon, vous auriez besoin de créer une instruction sql dynamique pour y parvenir.

Modifier - Et voilà (version SQL Server).

/* Begin Set up of test data */
IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 from sys.tables WHERE name = N'Item')
    DROP TABLE Item
GO

IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 from sys.tables WHERE name = N'CrossReference')
    DROP TABLE CrossReference
GO


CREATE TABLE Item
(
    Item        varchar(20),
    BasePart    varchar(20),
    Size        varchar(20)
);

CREATE Table CrossReference 
(
    Item        varchar(20),
    CrossReferenceNumber    varchar(20)
);

INSERT INTO Item VALUES ('item1', 'b1', 'Large');
INSERT INTO Item VALUES ('item2', 'bxx1', 'Large');
INSERT INTO Item VALUES ('item3', 'bddf1', 'Small');
INSERT INTO Item VALUES ('item4', 'be3f1', 'Small');
INSERT INTO Item VALUES ('item5', 'b13vx1', 'Small');

INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES( 'item1', 'crossRef1')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item1', 'crossRef2')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item1', 'crossRef3')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item1', 'crossRef4')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item2', 'crossRef1')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item2', 'crossRef1')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item3', 'crossRef1')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item4', 'crossRef2')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item5', 'crossRef5')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item5', 'crossRef1')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item5', 'crossRef2')
INSERT INTO CrossReference VALUES('item5', 'crossRef3')
/* End of test data setup */

/* Begin of actual query */
DECLARE @xRefs VARCHAR(2000),
        @query VARCHAR(8000)

SELECT @xRefs = STUFF((SELECT DISTINCT '],[' + ltrim(CrossReferenceNumber)
                        FROM CrossReference
                        ORDER BY '],[' + ltrim(CrossReferenceNumber)
                        FOR XML PATH('')
                       ), 1, 2, '') + ']'

SET @query = 
    'SELECT * 
     FROM   Item i
            INNER JOIN 
            (
                SELECT * 
                FROM
                (
                    SELECT Item, CrossReferenceNumber
                    FROM CrossReference
                ) t
                PIVOT   (MAX(CrossReferenceNumber) FOR CrossReferenceNumber IN (' + @xRefs + ')) as pvt

            ) xRefs
                ON i.Item = xRefs.Item
     ORDER BY i.Item'

EXECUTE (@query)
/* end */