X-Received: by 2002:a0c:8326:: with SMTP id j35mr14472072qva.205.1586725830402; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:10:30 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:ac8:36ab:: with SMTP id a40mr8582018qtc.309.1586725830150; Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:10:30 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news-out.google.com!nntp.google.com!postnews.google.com!google-groups.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 14:10:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: google-groups.googlegroups.com; posting-host=173.162.45.17; posting-account=oUsksgoAAADjmotEgGTiI_3PeNLPQGJq NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.162.45.17 References: <32b39068-acc8-48ef-ac56-7f80bc2ee65b@googlegroups.com> <7a25939e-1e2d-4de3-9315-edef91428a1a@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How do I order the columns on a pivot table? From: John Hall Injection-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2020 21:10:30 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Lines: 44 Xref: csiph.com microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming:31359 On Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 4:31:07 PM UTC-4, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > John Hall (foundarecord@gmail.com) writes: > > On Sunday, April 12, 2020 at 7:59:26 AM UTC-4, Erland Sommarskog wrote: > >> SELECT PE.TestID, > >> MIN(CASE PU.PresentOrder WHEN 1 THEN PE.TextValue END) AS Param1, > >> MIN(CASE PU.PresentOrder WHEN 2 THEN PE.TextValue END) AS Param2, > >> MIN(CASE PU.PresentOrder WHEN 3 THEN PE.TextValue END) AS Param3, > >> MIN(CASE PU.PresentOrder WHEN 4 THEN PE.TextValue END) AS Param4, > >> MIN(CASE PU.PresentOrder WHEN 5 THEN PE.TextValue END) AS Param5 > >> FROM ParametersEntries PE > >> JOIN ParametersUser PU ON PE.TestID = PU.TestID > >> GROUP BY PE.TestID > > > > The SQL Management studio is saying this is a view not a pivot table and > > can't have an ORDER BY. I simplified this for my question. I need to > > order the results and JOIN it on TestID with yet another table. > > > > Could explain more closely what you are doing? The above is not a view, it > is a query, since, well, that seemed to be what you asked for. But > obviously, you could make a it view by adding CREATE VIEW on top. > > You cannot have ORDER BY in a view definition. SELECT DateTime, Param1, Param2, Param3, Param4, Param5, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5 FROM ( SELECT TOP 10000 SubgroupID, DateTime, TestID FROM Subgroups WHERE CharID = 502107 AND DateTime < '04/22/2020' ORDER BY SubgroupID DESC ) s LEFT JOIN ( select TestID, [1] as Param1, [2] as Param2, [3] as Param3, [4] as Param4, [5] as Param5 from (select TestID, TextValue, row_number() over(partition by TestID order by ParameterID) rnk from ParameterEntries WHERE TestID IN (SELECT TOP 10000 TestID FROM Subgroups WHERE CharID = 502107 AND DateTime < '04/22/2020' ORDER BY SubgroupID DESC) ) p pivot(max(TextValue) for rnk in ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5])) piv) pv ON s.TestID = pv.TestID RIGHT JOIN (select SubgroupID, [1] as S1, [2] as S2, [3] as S3, [4] as S4, [5] as S5 from (select SubgroupID, Value, row_number() over(partition by SubgroupID order by SampleNumber) rnk from DataValues WHERE SubgroupID IN (SELECT TOP 10000 SubgroupID FROM Subgroups WHERE CharID = 502107 AND DateTime < '04/22/2020' ORDER BY SubgroupID DESC) ) d pivot(max(Value) for rnk in ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5])) piv) pv2 ON s.SubgroupID = pv2.SubgroupID ORDER BY DateTime I want to replace the ParameterEntries query with one that orders the TextValues in the order of their ParameterIDs in PresentOrder in ParametersUsed