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under2811
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

366 Posts

Posted - 2011-10-31 : 08:33:11

Hi All,

I need to do unpivoting operation for below results

Nov09--Dec09----Jan10
14-----29-------78

and want in format

Month----Count
Nov09----14
Dec09----29
Jan10----78

T.I.A

nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

3385 Posts

Posted - 2011-10-31 : 08:57:11

select [month] = 'Nov09', [Count] = nov09 from tbl
union all
select 'Dec09', Dec09 from tbl
union all
select 'Jan10', Jan10 from tbl

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Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.
SSIS can be used in a similar way.
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2011-10-31 : 11:28:21

using unpivot


declare @tbl table
(
Nov09 int,
Dec09 int,
Jan10 int
)
insert @tbl
select 14,29,78

select [Month],val
from @tbl
unpivot(val for [Month] in (Nov09,Dec09,Jan10))u

output
-----------------------------------
Month	val
-----------------------------------
Nov09	14
Dec09	29
Jan10	78

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