Coalesce and Pivot in TSQL
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05-09-2019 - |
Question
I am having trouble figuring out how to coalesce or pivot on a SQL recordset that looks like this:
ID VALUE GROUP
3 John 18
4 Smith 18
5 Microsoft 18
3 Randy 21
4 Davis 21
5 IBM 21
etc
and I want formatted like this
NEWVALUE GROUP
Smith, John (Microsft) 18
Davis, Randy (IBM) 21
thanks for any suggestions and help!
Solution
This is what i done, i hope it fits for you
DECLARE @t table (id int, value VARCHAR(20), grupo int)
INSERT @T VALUES (3, 'John', 18)
INSERT @T VALUES (4, 'Smith', 18)
INSERT @T VALUES (5, 'Microsoft', 18)
INSERT @T VALUES (3, 'Randy', 21)
INSERT @T VALUES (4, 'Davis', 21)
INSERT @T VALUES (5, 'IBM', 21)
SELECT grupo, (SELECT value FROM @t t2 WHERE t2.grupo = t.grupo AND id = 4) + ', ' +
(SELECT value FROM @t t2 WHERE t2.grupo = t.grupo AND id = 3) + ' (' +
(SELECT value FROM @t t2 WHERE t2.grupo = t.grupo AND id = 5) + ')'
FROM @t t
GROUP BY grupo
OTHER TIPS
SELECT LEFT(gvalue, LEN(gvalue) - 1) AS newvalue, _group
FROM (
SELECT DISTINCT _group
FROM mytable
) qo
CROSS APPLY
(
SELECT value + ', '
FROM mytable qi
WHERE qi._group = qo._group
FOR XML PATH ('')
) gr(qvalue)
If you always have a set of three hardcoded ID
's for each _group
, you can just use:
SELECT m3._group, m3.value + ', ' + m4.value + '(' + m5.value + ')' AS newvalue
FROM mytable m3
LEFT JOIN
mytable m4
ON m4._group = m3.group
LEFT JOIN
mytable m5
ON m5._group = m3.group
WHERE m3.id = 3
AND m4.id = 4
AND m5.id = 5
What you need is not pivoted query but a simple select with group by and an aggregate string concatenation function. But i don't remember the exact function in tsql.
Update: there is no aggregate concatenation function in tsql but since sql2005 you can write your own extension to implement such function. There is plenty of examples on google search for: tsql 2005 concatenation aggregate example.
This is a little hokey, but I think it should work reasonably well for a small data set. If you've got a lot of data you need to create a cursor and a loop.
select max(case when ID = 4 then VALUE else null end) + ', ' +
max(case when ID = 4 then VALUE else null end) + '( ' +
max(case when ID = 5 then VALUE else null end) + ') as NEWVALUE,
[GROUP]
group by [GROUP]