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Believe I am overthinking this. So created a SQL report to generate data that looks like this:
Client# Parent# Industry Client Name A B C D E F G
1 0 Agriculture ABC Co. 0 0 0 50 0 0 0
2 1 Agriculture DEF Co. 25 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 2 Agriculture GHI Co. 0 0 0 0 0 0 75
There are like 10,000 rows. If you noticed, there is a client number and a parent number. The 3 results displayed above are sub companies that are all under the "ABC Co." business. What is the best way to group them all together into one line within an Excel report? Have the result look like this:
Client# Parent# Industry Client Name A B C D E F G Total
1 0 Agriculture ABC Co. 25 0 0 50 0 0 75 150
Was thinking possibilities being:
1) Customize SQL code to format the data to look the way I want it (would be nice bc every time I run the report, I would have to do minimal work after it collects the data). I understand though it is more appropriate to use SQL just to retreive the data.
2) There being an option within Excel to accomplish this.
3) Create a macro to sort through the data and format it the way I want.
Thank you for reading!

Answer 1

" So created a SQL report to generate data that looks like this:"
The reason for your downvotes is likely due to you not posting the SQL code here. Leaves me guessing at your table formats, so for my ease... select * from mytable is what I'll guess you've used. I'm left guessing column names too...in future questions, more information is helpful so I assume less.
select t1.client, t2.client, t3.client, t4.client, t1.parent, t2.parent, t3.parent, t1.*
from maytable t1
left join mytable t2 on t1.parent = t2.client
left join mytable t3 on t2.parent = t3.client
left join mytable t4 on t3.parent = t4.client
etc pending how deep this relation goes.
This will give you a list showing the parents. The t1.* is simply to grab the data columns related, you should write out your columns in full, I'm being lazy since no column list was supplied. The client IDs should look like this in your example (I've ignored parentID in my list below)
row 1 - 1 , 0, null , null
row 2 - 2 , 1 , 0, null
row 3 - 3 , 2 , 1, 0
Now we need a case statement...when the parent = 0 then show that client id.
select client_id, case when t1.parentid = 0 then t1.client_id
when t2.parentid = 0 then t2.client_id
when t3.parentid = 0 then t3.client_id
when t4.parentid = 0 then t4.clientID
end as parent_ID
, t1.*
from (same as above query)
You can take what was just written above and call it a sub query and select from it, this time grabbing the sums of the columns you want.
select parent_id, sum(a), sum(b), etc...
from
(select client_id, case when t1.parentid = 0 then t1.client_id
when t2.parentid = 0 then t2.client_id
when t3.parentid = 0 then t3.client_id
when t4.parentid = 0 then t4.clientID
end as parent_ID
, t1.*
from maytable t1
left join mytable t2 on t1.parent = t2.client
left join mytable t3 on t2.parent = t3.client
left join mytable t4 on t3.parent = t4.client
etc pending how deep this relation goes. ) a
group by parent_id
Unfortunately this is the best code I can provide with the limited info you've given.