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rwlopez
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80 Posts

Posted - 2007-01-15 : 17:07:04
I am trying to solve a problem with a pivot query that is very similar to the one illustrated below. The first set of code works and the second does not. The only difference is in the values being pivoted on. It seems that the pivot values cannot be a number which I do not understand since the number is being treated as a string. Has anyone experienced this before?


declare @SalesQuarter table
(
SalesYear int,
SalesQuarter char(2),
SalesAmount float
)

insert into @SalesQuarter values(2006, 'Q1', 70)
insert into @SalesQuarter values(2006, 'Q2', 150)
insert into @SalesQuarter values(2006, 'Q3', 20)
insert into @SalesQuarter values(2006, 'Q4', 20)

select * from @SalesQuarter
pivot
(
sum(SalesAmount)
for SalesQuarter
in (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4)
) as Q

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

declare @SalesQuarter table
(
SalesYear int,
SalesQuarter char(2),
SalesAmount float
)

insert into @SalesQuarter values(2006, '1', 70)
insert into @SalesQuarter values(2006, '2', 150)
insert into @SalesQuarter values(2006, '3', 20)
insert into @SalesQuarter values(2006, '4', 20)

select * from @SalesQuarter
pivot
(
sum(SalesAmount)
for SalesQuarter
in (1, 2, 3, 4)
) as Q

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2007-01-15 : 17:21:18
Try posting SQL Server 2005 questions in the proper SQL Server 2005 forum, not a SQL Server 2000 forum.


Peter Larsson
Helsingborg, Sweden
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