Comments on: Pivot…. I said PIVOT!!!!

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Now syndicating Colin Stasiuk and Tim Ford | Brent Ozar - SQL Server DBA — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:33:32 +0000

[...] Doing Pivot Tables in SQL Server – if your data is organized by row, and you need it in columns instead, then you need a pivot table. Colin gives an example. [...]

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By: Colin Stasiuk

Colin Stasiuk — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:36:24 +0000

Srinivas

great catch… the example I pulled does do more work “by hand” then is required. Post Updated and thanks!!

By: Srinivas

Srinivas — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:34:30 +0000

PIVOT itself aggregate, Not sure why you are doing by hand

SELECT
[1] AS ‘January’
,[2] AS ‘February’
,[3] AS ‘March’
,[4] AS ‘April’
,[5] AS ‘May’
,[6] AS ‘June’
,[7] AS ‘July’
,[8] AS ‘August’
,[9] AS ‘September’
,[10] AS ‘October’
,[11] AS ‘November’
,[12] AS ‘December’
FROM (
SELECT
MONTH(OrderDate) AS ‘MonthNumber’,
OrderID
FROM Sales.SalesOrderHeader
WHERE YEAR(OrderDate) = 2002

) AS Data
PIVOT(
COUNT(OrderID)
FOR MonthNumber IN([1],[2],[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10],[11],[12])
) AS PVT