Transpose dynamic rows into column

  • hello all, i would like to seek your kind help regarding the transpose of rows into columns.
    i have a table on the left hand side with more than 1000 company sales figure. I will use select distinct to pull each company from the table (sales), however  i am having issue to populate each of the row (sales) into columns for easier review.
    i would like to make a report for me to review those sales in a column format -15 columns (on the right hand side), can someone please kindly advice on how to build the TSQL for this? 

    Thanks.

  • Do you have to do this in T-SQL? Pivoting a data in T-SQL can be quite a costly process, and if you require it to be dynamic, even more so (plus you have to use Dynamic SQL).

    Presentation layers are much better at this. For example using a Matrix on SSRS, or a Pivot Table in Microsoft Excel. Would tools like these instead be a viable option for you? If so, and you're not sure how to use them, then just ask, and we'll be able to show you how. 🙂

    Thom~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
    Larnu.uk

  • golden-1131024 - Sunday, May 7, 2017 4:09 AM

    hello all, i would like to seek your kind help regarding the transpose of rows into columns.
    i have a table on the left hand side with more than 1000 company sales figure. I will use select distinct to pull each company from the table (sales), however  i am having issue to populate each of the row (sales) into columns for easier review.
    i would like to make a report for me to review those sales in a column format -15 columns (on the right hand side), can someone please kindly advice on how to build the TSQL for this? 

    Thanks.

    This is actually pretty simple to do in T-SQL and it can have some very good performance in the presence of a thing known as "pre-aggregation" (tip o' the hat to Peter Larsson for the term and the method).  Please see the following article.
    Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs[/url]

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

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