Ok, so I have 2 tables in all:
Table 1
has these 3 columns which are not meaningful as they are just avarchar
value:Q19243 Q19244 Q19245
Table 2
has 2 columnsColumnName
andTextValue
.
ColumnName
holds the values of the name of the 3 columns in Table 1
(Q19243
etc) and also has a corresponding column called TextValue
which holds a friendly description of what Q19243
actually means.
So there are 3 records in Table 2
, 1 for each column in Table 1
.
I would like to rename these 3 columns in Table 1
to equal whatever is in the TextValue
column in Table 2
. I would like to do this dynamically rather than a simple UPDATE
statement to rename the columns. Sorry I did not attach screen shots but I do not see an attach button to do so...
If you run this code to create an example of the 2 tables then you should probably have a better idea of what I'm referring to.
create table #Table1 (Q19243 varchar(10),Q19244 varchar(10),Q19245 varchar(10))
Create table #Table2 (ColumnName varchar(10),TextValue varchar(50))
Insert into #Table2 select 'Q19243','Provider Name'
Insert into #Table2 select 'Q19244','The Provider You Usually See'
Insert into #Table2 select 'Q19245','How Long Going to Provider'
select * from #Table1
select * from #Table2
drop table #Table1
drop table #Table2