What is Data Transposing?

What is Data Transposing?

The process of converting rows to columns in the data table is called Data Transposing. This can be done with matrices, tables, or other data structures that help to reorganize and reshape data to better suit the desired format. It allows convenient handling of data and facilitates specific types of analyses where the arrangement of data in rows and columns matters....

PIVOT in SQL Server

PIVOT is the SQL SERVER Syntax which is used in Data Transposing. This operation is useful when we want to rotate the result set of a query to make it more readable or to analyze it in a different way....

Reverse PIVOT or UNPIVOT in SQL Server

Reversing the already pivoted table is called Reverse PIVOT which is done using UNPIVOT. For example, the above table can be brought to its original form using UNPIVOT operator....

Examples of Reverse PIVOT Table in SQL Server

To understand the PIVOT and UNPIVOT in a better way, we need a table on which we will perform various operation and queries. Let’s say the below is the original table. We can transpose the table on the column Year or some other and convert the rows to columns. Call this as EmployeeTable...

Conclusion

This is the way we can manipulate Data and additionally we can use Reverse Pivot with other Aggregate function part from SUM() , combine with other SQL features like JOIN and sort, filter the columns. we can use PIVOT, UNPIVOT to transpose the data as required in SQL Server or any other SQL Database. This will eventually help us to analyze the data as required. After reading whole article now you have a decent knowledge about the PIVOT and UNPIVOT and you can easily perform operations and queries....