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The rows of the "sales" table needs to be converted into columns as shown below

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cutomer_id a_product b_product c_product

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1 10 20
2 30 40 50
3 60 70 80
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The query for converting the rows to columns is

SELECT *
FROM (SELECT customer_id,product,price from sales)
pivot ( sum(price) as total_price for (product) IN ( 'A' as a, 'B' as b, 'C'

Pivot can be used to generate the data in xml format. The query for generating the data into xml
fomat is shown below.

SELECT *
FROM (SELECT customer_id,product,price from sales)
pivot XML ( sum(price) as total_price for (product) IN ( SELECT distinct prod
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If you are not using oracle 11g database, then you can implement the unpivot feature as
converting rows to columns

Unpivot:

Unpivot operator converts the columns into rows.

Table Name: sales_rev

cutomer_id a_product b_product c_product

-----------------------------------------
1 10 20
2 30 40 50
3 60 70 80

Table Name: sales

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customer_id product price

---------------------------
1 A 10
1 B 20
2 A 30
2 B 40
2 C 50
3 A 60
3 B 70
3 C 80

The query to convert rows into columns is

SELECT *
FROM sales_rev
UNPIVOT [EXCLUDE NULLs | INCLUDE NULLs] (price FOR product IN (a_product AS '

Points to note about the query

The columns price and product in the unpivot clause are required and these names
need not to be present in the table.
The unpivoted columns must be specified in the IN clause
By default the query excludes null values.
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2 comments:

Neel 30 January, 2012 22:04

Any idea on how can we achieve pivot n unpivot without using these operator. i.e by using simple
sql how can we achieve it (using same above example).
Thanks,
Neel

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vijay bhaskar 31 January, 2012 03:47

You can find the pivot operation at http://www.folkstalk.com/2010/04/converting-rows-
to-columns.html

And for unpivot, a simple query is using union all.

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