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GETTING NULLS WHEN USING PIVOT [message #653894] Thu, 21 July 2016 08:00 Go to next message
vijay1255
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Dear Experts,

Am working on pivot in oracle SQL.I have issues as am getting nulls instead of data after doing pivot.

Please find the attachment of Sample source data, Query and the output.

Kindly provide your inputs and let me know if i need to change anything in query to get the desired output.

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
Vijay Vanamala.
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Re: GETTING NULLS WHEN USING PIVOT [message #653895 is a reply to message #653894] Thu, 21 July 2016 08:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Re: GETTING NULLS WHEN USING PIVOT [message #653897 is a reply to message #653894] Thu, 21 July 2016 08:14 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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janu != Janu

With any SQL or PL/SQL question, please, Post a working Test case: create statements for all objects so that we will be able work to reproduce what you have.

Re: GETTING NULLS WHEN USING PIVOT [message #653931 is a reply to message #653897] Fri, 22 July 2016 07:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
vijay1255
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Thank you Michel,

Yes i did corrected the code and am getting the result.
Next time, i will make sure to post complete working Test Case.

Thanks again Smile

Best Regards,
Vijay Vanamala.
Re: GETTING NULLS WHEN USING PIVOT [message #653933 is a reply to message #653931] Fri, 22 July 2016 07:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bill B
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I would strongly suggest that instead of a column for year and a column for an abbreviated month you only use a single DATE column. You can sort on it and it is very easy to produce the exact same results and you can't load garbage into it.
select *
from (select to_char(DATE_COLUMN,'YYYY') YEAR,
             substr(TO_CHAR(DATE_COLUMN,'Month'),1,4) monthe,
             Amount
             from pivot_test s)
PIVOT
(
  sum(Amount)
  for monthe IN ('Janu','Febr','Marc','Apri','May','June','July','Augu','Sept','Octo','Nove','Dece')
);
Re: GETTING NULLS WHEN USING PIVOT [message #653936 is a reply to message #653933] Fri, 22 July 2016 09:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I prefer "extract(year from date_column)" (which is a number) to "to_char(DATE_COLUMN,'YYYY')" (which is a string).

Re: GETTING NULLS WHEN USING PIVOT [message #653939 is a reply to message #653894] Fri, 22 July 2016 10:24 Go to previous message
Bill B
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I totally agree. If the year column in your table is a number use extract. If it is a string use to_char. Nice catch Michel.
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