Can i sort a cross tab horizontally?

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Can i sort a cross tab horizontally?

jeffshelix

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October 1, 2018 at 7:17 am

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i have a report that shows top 20 sales each month for the past 12 months by product.
I have a cross tab where the months are in the columns and products are in the rows. THis works fine, but i want to sort, by month, with the current being the latest.
So for October report, i want October of 2017 to be the left-most column and September to be the right-most column. Can this be done?
thanks

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003857 More actions · Answer 1

jeffshelix - Monday, October 1, 2018 7:17 AM
i have a report that shows top 20 sales each month for the past 12 months by product.
I have a cross tab where the months are in the columns and products are in the rows. THis works fine, but i want to sort, by month, with the current being the latest.
So for October report, i want October of 2017 to be the left-most column and September to be the right-most column. Can this be done?
thanks

Yes. 😛

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003857 More actions · Answer 2

More seriously, if you want some coded help, you need to provide a bit more information and it would really be nice if you could help us help you by providing some data in a readily consumable format. Please see the first link in my signature line below for how to do such a thing.

--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)

Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 90249 More actions · Answer 3

I cannot provide anything that can be tested - but maybe something like this:

Declare @startDate datetime = dateadd(day, 1, eomonth(current_timestamp, -13));

With cteTally As ( Select N = row_number() over(Order By t.n) From (Values (0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0),(0)) As t(n) ) , monthRange As ( Select MonthNumber = abs(t.N - 13) , StartMonthDate = dateadd(month, t.N - 1, @startDate) , EndMonthDate = cast(eomonth(@startDate, t.N - 1) As datetime) From cteTally t ) Select ... , Month01 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 01 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month02 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 02 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month03 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 03 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month04 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 04 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month05 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 05 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month06 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 06 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month07 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 07 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month08 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 08 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month09 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 09 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month10 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 10 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month11 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 11 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Month12 = sum(Case When mr.MonthNumber = 12 Then 1 Else 0 End) , Total = count(*) From {your tables} Inner Join monthRange mr On {your date field} >= mr.StartMonthDate And {your date field} < dateadd(day, 1, mr.EndMonthDate) Where ... Group By ...;

This gives a count for each month - you can change it to use whatever values you need.

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jeffshelix SSCrazy Points: 2257 More actions · Answer 4

jeffshelix

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October 1, 2018 at 2:54 pm

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thanks! i will give that a try!

drew.allen SSC Guru Points: 76944 More actions · Answer 5

I think it's much simpler. You've posted in an SSRS forum, so presumably you are doing this in SSRS. I also presume that you are using a matrix. In your Column Groups, select the appropriate column group's down arrow and select "Group Properties...". From there, it should be fairly obvious what to do.

Drew

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Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 90249 More actions · Answer 6

drew.allen - Monday, October 1, 2018 3:28 PM
I think it's much simpler. You've posted in an SSRS forum, so presumably you are doing this in SSRS. I also presume that you are using a matrix. In your Column Groups, select the appropriate column group's down arrow and select "Group Properties...". From there, it should be fairly obvious what to do.
Drew

I didn't notice this was in an ssrs forum. It is much easier to do in a matrix.

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