Transform vertical result into horizontal mode (T-SQL)

pivot, sql-server, sql-server-2008, sql-server-2012, t-sql

Solution

As has been said this isn't actually possible, the closest you could get is:

January2014CalculationDate | January2014PLResult | February2014CalculationDate | February2014PLResult
---------------------------+---------------------+-----------------------------+------------------
    2014-01-02             |       100           |       2014-02-03            |       300
    2014-01-03             |       200           |       2014-02-04            |       400
    NULL                   |       NULL          |       2014-02-27            |       500

And even that is not simple and I would still advise handling formatting like this outside of sql. The first step is to partition the data by month, and then rank the dates in each month:

SELECT  CalculationDate,
        PLResult,
        CalculationMonth,
        DenseRank = DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY CalculationMonth ORDER BY CalculationDate)
FROM    (   SELECT  CalculationDate,
                    PLResult,
                    CalculationMonth = DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, CalculationDate), 0)
            FROM    #PLResultPerDay
        ) pl;

This gives:

CalculationDate PLResult    CalculationMonth    DenseRank
2014-01-02      100         2014-01-01          1
2014-01-03      200         2014-01-01          2
2014-02-03      300         2014-02-01          1
2014-02-04      400         2014-02-01          2
2014-02-27      500         2014-02-01          3

You can then pivot this data:

WITH Data AS
(   SELECT  CalculationDate,
            PLResult,
            CalculationMonth,
            DenseRank = DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY CalculationMonth ORDER BY CalculationDate)
    FROM    (   SELECT  CalculationDate,
                        PLResult,
                        CalculationMonth = DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, CalculationDate), 0)
                FROM    #PLResultPerDay
            ) pl
)
SELECT  Jan2014CalcDate = MIN(CASE WHEN CalculationMonth = '20140101' THEN CalculationDate END),
        Jan2014Result = SUM(CASE WHEN CalculationMonth = '20140101' THEN PLResult END),
        Feb2014CalcDate = MIN(CASE WHEN CalculationMonth = '20140201' THEN CalculationDate END),
        Feb2014Result = SUM(CASE WHEN CalculationMonth = '20140201' THEN PLResult END)
FROM    Data
GROUP BY DenseRank
ORDER BY DenseRank;

This gives:

Jan2014CalcDate Jan2014Result   Feb2014CalcDate Feb2014Result
2014-01-02      100             2014-02-03      300
2014-01-03      200             2014-02-04      400
NULL            NULL            2014-02-27      500

Then since you have a dynamic number of months you need to build the above statement dynamically and use `SP_EXECUTESQL` to run it:

DECLARE @SQL NVARCHAR(MAX) = '';

WITH Months AS
(   SELECT  M,
            ColName = DATENAME(MONTH, M) + DATENAME(YEAR, M),
            CharFormat = CONVERT(VARCHAR(8), M, 112)
    FROM    (   SELECT  DISTINCT M = DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, CalculationDate), 0)
                FROM    #PLResultPerDay
            ) m
)
SELECT  @SQL = 'WITH Data AS
                (   SELECT  CalculationDate,
                            PLResult,
                            CalculationMonth,
                            DenseRank = DENSE_RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY CalculationMonth ORDER BY CalculationDate)
                    FROM    (   SELECT  CalculationDate,
                                        PLResult,
                                        CalculationMonth = DATEADD(MONTH, DATEDIFF(MONTH, 0, CalculationDate), 0)
                                FROM    #PLResultPerDay
                            ) pl
                )
                SELECT  ' + 
                STUFF(( SELECT  ', ' + ColName + 'CalculationDate = MIN(CASE WHEN CalculationMonth = ''' + CharFormat + ''' THEN CalculationDate END), ' + 
                                ColName + 'PLResult = SUM(CASE WHEN CalculationMonth = ''' + CharFormat + ''' THEN PLResult END)'
                        FROM    Months
                        ORDER BY M
                        FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
                    ).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)'), 1, 2, '') + 
                'FROM   Data
                GROUP BY DenseRank
                ORDER BY DenseRank;';

EXECUTE SP_EXECUTESQL @SQL;

Example on SQL Fiddle

Please note, I still advise against this technique, and think SQL should be left to storing/retrieving data, and the presentation layer for formatting it

Problem

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