Crosstabs and piviot - Another easy question

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March 7th, 2003, 09:00 AM

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Crosstabs and piviot - Another easy question

I'm porting from Oracle to EXCEL?

What the heck is a cross-tab query?Would anyone care to give an example in SQL?

Also piviot table? Wha? Would anyone care to give an example in SQL?

March 27th, 2003, 08:36 AM

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crosstab query

A query that calculates a sum, average, count, or other type of total on records, and then groups the result by two types of information — one down the left side of the datasheet and the other across the top. For example, the Quarterly Orders by Product query in the Northwind sample database is a crosstab query. You can also display data in a crosstab format by using a PivotTable list or PivotTable form.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...osstabQuery.asp

A Pivot table is a sql query that has been modified to give an aggregate view, very similar to the above

Both of these are not standard SQL and there is no standard SQL to implement them. Excel uses functions to make them, Access uses its own version of SQL with the PIVOT keyword

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Pivot and Cross Tab

Thanks for the definitions. I was way off on both of them.

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