Home Forums SQL Server 2005 T-SQL (SS2K5) How to Pivot without an aggregate RE: How to Pivot without an aggregate

  • December 26, 2013 at 1:23 pm

    #1676002

    asheppardwork (12/26/2013)

    Thank you so much for your code. I have been looking for two days for someone to list a simple example of how to "pivot" rows and columns WITHOUT aggregates. I know its not truly a pivot in the SQL/Excel point of view, but I still feel the terminology holds up as it is turning row data into columnar data. I have seen many bad examples; and almost all of them aggregate or have a fixed number of columns. Yours is the only one with the three elements I needed, dynamic columns, change of row to column, and NO- Aggregation. I know I can't be the only one who has to come up with lists like say customer/part no. where you want jus the list of customer once and the part no. in columns out to the right but the data is formatted to be 1 to 1 customer/part no. which repeats customers over and over.

    Thank you again.

    Just so you know, MAX is considered to be a form of an "Aggregate". I wanted to clarify that because when people ask me how to pivot without an aggregate in T-SQL, I tell them it's not possible... you need an aggregate in on form or another.

    --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)