The data below are a subset of the Resale dataset provided with the software. This (computer simulated) data. gives the selling price, the number of bedrooms, the total square footage (finished and unfinished), and the size of. the lots for 150 residential properties sold during the last four months in two states.
A common scenario where PIVOT can be useful is when you want to generate cross-tabulation reports to summarize data. For example, suppose you want to query the PurchaseOrderHeader table in the AdventureWorks2008R2 sample database to determine the number of purchase orders placed by certain employees.
In SQL, a pivot table is a set of data that is transformed from a collection of separate rows to a collection of columns. In relational databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL, pivot tables can be used to simplify extensive data in order to make it easier to read and understand. To create a pivot ...