Question

I have following type of data in my Sql server:-

Field         Value   Month

Administrative  5   November
Counteracting   7   November
District1       9   November
District2       6   November
Administrative  1   December
Counteracting   2   December
District1       3   December
District2       4   December
Administrative  9   January
Counteracting   8   January
District1       5   January
District2       6   January

Now the problem is I am not able to figure out that how to show this data in the following format:-

Field         November   December   January

Administrative  5          1          9
Counteracting   7          2          8  
District1       9          3          5
District2       6          4          6

Answer 1

What you are trying to do is PIVOT the data. There are a few ways to perform this. If you know the values ahead of time, then you can hard-code the values.

You can use an aggregate function with a CASE statement:

select field,
  sum(case when month ='November' then value end) November,
  sum(case when month ='December' then value end) December,
  sum(case when month ='January' then value end) January,
  etc
from yourtable
group by field

See SQL Fiddle with Demo

In SQL Server 2005+ you can use the PIVOT function:

select field, November, December, January
from
(
  select field,
    value, month
  from yourtable
) src
pivot
(
  sum(value)
  for month in (November, December, January, etc)
) piv

See SQL Fiddle with Demo

If you had an unknown number of values to transform into columns then you could use dynamic sql to pivot the data.