Way to pivot data without aggregation

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Way to pivot data without aggregation

vmon

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September 26, 2007 at 9:09 am

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I have a table with ProductId, ItemId, PropertyId, and ValueId columns. My ValueId is a varchar(20) and happens to be the data I want pivoted under the PropertyId which would be my columns. ProductId and ItemId would be the row. Is there a way to do this with Pivot?
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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173045 More actions · Answer 1

Sorry, but no. The PIVOT operator requires some sort of aggregation. Whether you're averaging or summing or whatever.

Someone did post a CASE statement SELECT which is a fake pivot, though. Check out this thread: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic399930-338-1.aspx

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Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 2

well - for better or for worse - Min( [varchar]) returns the [varchar], so you could use that as your aggregate. Assuming you can make sure that the grouping only returns one valueID per column+row grouping, that should give you what you wish.

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noeld SSC Guru Points: 96590 More actions · Answer 3

Totally agree with Matt and you can use either Min or Max ... just be carefull if you have Nulls !

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004279 More actions · Answer 4

...or duplicated data...

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