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Creating dynamic pivot reports on SQL Server

In one of my current projects I have some pivot reports that show count of issues in different states. Grouping depends on report. States are dynamic admins can define new states and save them to states table. This means that I cannot hardcode names of states to queries. Instead I need dynamic pivots. In this posting I will show you how to write reporting procedures that offer dynamic pivoting capabilities. The trick here is to create dynamic list of all possible states and use this list in dynamically generated pivot query. Here is fragment of my database, names of tables should be self-describing.

Heres the query:

CREATE PROCEDURE XSP_REPORT_REQUESTS_BY_CATEGORY AS BEGIN DECLARE @PivotColumnHeaders VARCHAR(MAX) SELECT @PivotColumnHeaders = COALESCE( @PivotColumnHeaders + ',[' + cast(STATUS_NAME as varchar) + ']', '[' + cast(STATUS_NAME as varchar)+ ']' ) FROM DOC_STATUSES DECLARE @PivotTableSQL NVARCHAR(MAX) SET @PivotTableSQL = N'

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SELECT * FROM (SELECT dc.CATEGORY_NAME AS [Category], ds.STATUS_NAME As name, req.ID as ID FROM REQUESTS_FOR_PROPOSAL req INNER JOIN DOC_STATUSES ds ON req.STATUS_ID = ds.ID INNER JOIN DOC_CATEGORIES dc ON req.CATEGORY_ID = dc.ID ) AS Source PIVOT( COUNT(ID) FOR name IN ('+@PivotColumnHeaders+') ) AS PIVOTTBL' EXECUTE(@PivotTableSQL) END
Output of this reporting procedure is table like this:

I dont like this dynamic SQL in stored procedure because it can be hard to debug. But this far this solution works fine for me and I can always use views to get more complex querying logic out from reporting procedures. Posted: Jan 02 2012, 11:08 AM by DigiMortal | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SQL Server, Databases

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Comments mike said:

Thanks for the SP. Does clear up a few things. I am doing a similar report which has multiple dimensions similar to this one the only issue is i need to have the query in LINQ, but the SP helps as it does clear a few doubts i had. Thanks

# January 10, 2012 3:39 PM

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