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Practical Oracle SQL: Mastering the Full Power of Oracle Database
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Practical Oracle SQL: Mastering the Full Power of Oracle Database

by Kim Berg Hansen
February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
467 pages
8h 30m
English
Apress
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© Kim Berg Hansen 2020
K. Berg HansenPractical Oracle SQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5617-6_8

8. Pivoting Rows to Columns

Kim Berg Hansen1 
(1)
Middelfart, Denmark
 

The previous chapter was about unpivoting, which is the process of turning columns into rows. The opposite operation is called pivoting, which – surprise, surprise – is turning rows into columns.

The idea is that you have a resultset with some dimensional values in one or more columns and some facts/measure values in one or more other columns. You’d like the output grouped by some other columns, so you only have one aggregated row for those values, and then the values from your measures should be placed in a set of columns, one for each value of your dimension (or combination of values ...

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