Question

I am trying to get a grip on the pivot query syntax.

I have about 20 fields worth of aggregate data all associated with 1 field, which is the category for those 20 fields (by fields I mean columns).

It looks like this

Category1        column1    column2    column3
Category2        column1    column2    column3

and so on…

What I am trying to do is pivot those results to come out like this

Category1    Category2    Category3

column1      column1      column1
column2      column2      column2
column3      column3      column3

My query looks like this

SELECT TOP(3) category FROM 
( 
    SELECT category FROM table 
)p 
PIVOT 
( 
    AVG(column1) as column1, AVG(column2) as column2, AVG(column3) as column3) 
    FOR category IN category 
) AS pvt;

I am running SQL Server 2005. Thanks for any help or suggestions!

Answer 1

I think you really want UNPIVOT.