View with dynamic columns

Hello.

I'm sure this must be a FAQ but can't find it anywhere.

I'm collecting data from people in a questionnaire style but don't know what/how many questions there are. I need to create a view that displays responses to each of the questions as a view, as follows:

Name | Company | Favourite Colour | Age Range | Favourite Food

In this example, there are three 'dynamic' questions. The data is stored as follows:

• People - basic information about the respondents
• Questions - the names of the questions being asked
• Choices - the options that can be chosen from for each question
• Responses - the answers that people provide.

If I know exactly what questions there are, then I can JOIN to the questions table the appropriate number of times. But I don't! Can this be done without dynamic SQL?

Very many thanks for help.

Simplified tables and data follow:

CREATE TABLE [People](
	[ID] [int] NULL,
	[Name] [varchar](50) NULL,
	[Company] [varchar](50) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

CREATE TABLE [Questions](
	[ID] [int] NULL,
	[QuestionName] [varchar](50) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

CREATE TABLE [Choices](
	[ID] [int] NULL,
	[QuestionID] [int] NULL,
	[ChoiceName] [varchar](50) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

CREATE TABLE [Responses](
	[ID] [int] NULL,
	[PersonID] [int] NULL,
	[QuestionID] [int] NULL,
	[ChoiceID] [int] NULL,
	[OtherText] [varchar](50) NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

INSERT [People] ([ID], [Name], [Company]) VALUES (1, N'Ben', N'ACME')
GO
INSERT [People] ([ID], [Name], [Company]) VALUES (2, N'Dave', N'My Corp')
GO
INSERT [People] ([ID], [Name], [Company]) VALUES (3, N'Sarah', N'Newco')
GO
INSERT [Questions] ([ID], [QuestionName]) VALUES (1, N'FavouriteColour')
GO
INSERT [Questions] ([ID], [QuestionName]) VALUES (2, N'AgeRange')
GO
INSERT [Questions] ([ID], [QuestionName]) VALUES (3, N'FavouriteFood')
GO
INSERT [Choices] ([ID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceName]) VALUES (1, 1, N'Red')
GO
INSERT [Choices] ([ID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceName]) VALUES (2, 1, N'Blue')
GO
INSERT [Choices] ([ID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceName]) VALUES (3, 1, N'Green')
GO
INSERT [Choices] ([ID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceName]) VALUES (4, 2, N'<18')
GO
INSERT [Choices] ([ID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceName]) VALUES (5, 2, N'18-65')
GO
INSERT [Choices] ([ID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceName]) VALUES (6, 2, N'65+')
GO
INSERT [Choices] ([ID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceName]) VALUES (7, 3, N'Pasta')
GO
INSERT [Choices] ([ID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceName]) VALUES (8, 3, N'Curry')
GO
INSERT [Choices] ([ID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceName]) VALUES (9, 3, N'Steak')
GO
INSERT [Responses] ([ID], [PersonID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceID], [OtherText]) VALUES (1, 1, 1, 1, NULL)
GO
INSERT [Responses] ([ID], [PersonID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceID], [OtherText]) VALUES (2, 1, 2, 1, NULL)
GO
INSERT [Responses] ([ID], [PersonID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceID], [OtherText]) VALUES (3, 1, 3, 2, NULL)
GO
INSERT [Responses] ([ID], [PersonID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceID], [OtherText]) VALUES (4, 2, 1, 4, NULL)
GO
INSERT [Responses] ([ID], [PersonID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceID], [OtherText]) VALUES (5, 2, 2, 5, NULL)
GO
INSERT [Responses] ([ID], [PersonID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceID], [OtherText]) VALUES (6, 2, 3, 6, NULL)
GO
INSERT [Responses] ([ID], [PersonID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceID], [OtherText]) VALUES (7, 3, 1, 7, NULL)
GO
INSERT [Responses] ([ID], [PersonID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceID], [OtherText]) VALUES (8, 3, 2, 9, NULL)
GO
INSERT [Responses] ([ID], [PersonID], [QuestionID], [ChoiceID], [OtherText]) VALUES (9, 3, 3, 9, NULL)
GO