Cross Join Split of Data

Question

I have a table Employee, another table Department and a relational table:

Employee Table
id  Name
1   A
2   B
3   C
4   D
5   E
6   F

Department Table
id  Name
1   Accounting
2   Finance

Relation Table
id   EmployeeId   DepartmentId

I want to make a dynamic query to be able to distribute in my relational table same quantity of employee for each department, I know that I can use cross join but is going to put all employees in each department. I just want the distribution, for example 3 employees for Account and the other 3 for finance, but this quantity could change. Thanks

Answer 1

That was fun, it seems to work pretty well, employees are distributed randomly in each departments:

select EmployeeId, DepartmentId
from 
(  select 
    ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY NEWID()) as RankEmployee
  , Id as EmployeeId
    from Employee
 ) e , 
(  select 
    ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY NEWID()) as RankDepartment
  , (select count(1) from Department) as CountDepartment
  , Id as DepartmentId
    from Department
 ) d
where (RankEmployee + RankDepartment) % CountDepartment = 0

The condition

(RankEmployee + RankDepartment) % CountDepartment = 0

will retrieve only one row for each employee.
And ranks are computed randomly with OVER(ORDER BY NEWID()). See this answer for details.

SQLFiddle here.

Answer 2

declare @columns varchar(max)='',@str varchar(maX) = '',@columns1 varchar(max)=''

select   @columns = @columns+category+',' from piv group by category
set @columns= left(@columns,len(@columns)-1)

select   @columns1 = @COLUMNS1+'ISNULL(['+category+'],0) AS ['+category+'],' from piv group by category
set @columns1= left(@columns1,len(@columns1)-1)



set @str = 
'select date,'+@columns1+'  from 
(
    select date,category, amount as amounts from piv
)res
pivot
(
    max(amounts)
    for category in ('+@columns+')
)pv'
--print @str
exec(@str)