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saniljthomas
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Posted - 2009-02-11 : 18:06:10
Hi I am new to SQL and I have a table which looks like

GROUP
Sales
Production
Distribution

All I want to do is change this to

Sales | Production | Distribution

I have been told Pivot function does this but I really dont know how this is done.






Sanil

sodeep
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7174 Posts

Posted - 2009-02-11 : 22:02:41
[code]Select Max(Case when [Group] ='Sales' then [Group] else Null end) as A,
Max(Case when [Group] ='Production' then [Group] else Null End) as B,
Max(Case when [Group] ='Distribution' then [Group] else Null End
From Table
[/code]
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bklr
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1693 Posts

Posted - 2009-02-11 : 23:41:51
try this sample examples for pivot & dynamic cross tab

CREATE TABLE Pivot_SampleEx
(
YEAR SMALLINT,
QUARTER TINYINT,
AMOUNT DECIMAL(2,1)
)

INSERT INTO Pivot_SampleEx VALUES (1990,1,1.1)
INSERT INTO Pivot_SampleEx VALUES (1990,2,1.2)
INSERT INTO Pivot_SampleEx VALUES (1990,3,1.3)
INSERT INTO Pivot_SampleEx VALUES (1990,4,1.4)
INSERT INTO Pivot_SampleEx VALUES (1991,1,2.1)
INSERT INTO Pivot_SampleEx VALUES (1991,2,2.2)
INSERT INTO Pivot_SampleEx VALUES (1991,3,2.3)
INSERT INTO Pivot_SampleEx VALUES (1991,4,2.4)
INSERT INTO PIVOT_SampleEx VALUES (2002,3,5.2)
INSERT INTO PIVOT_SampleEx VALUES (2002,4,5.4)

SELECT YEAR,
SUM(CASE QUARTER WHEN 1 THEN AMOUNT ELSE 0 END) AS Q1,
SUM(CASE QUARTER WHEN 2 THEN AMOUNT ELSE 0 END) AS Q2,
SUM(CASE QUARTER WHEN 3 THEN AMOUNT ELSE 0 END) AS Q3,
SUM(CASE QUARTER WHEN 4 THEN AMOUNT ELSE 0 END) AS Q4
FROM
Pivot_SampleEx
GROUP BY YEAR

SELECT YEAR,[1] AS Q1,[2] AS Q2,[3] AS Q3,[4] AS Q4
FROM
(SELECT * FROM Pivot_SampleEx) AS P
PIVOT ( SUM(AMOUNT) FOR QUARTER IN ([1],[2],[3],[4]))AS PVT
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