Trying to Sum up Cross-Tab Data in SQL - sql

Question

I have a table where every ID has one or more places, and each place comes with a count. Places can be repeated within IDs. It is stored in rows like so:
ID ColumnName DataValue
1 place1 ABC
1 count1 5
2 place1 BEC
2 count1 12
2 place2 CDE
2 count2 6
2 place3 BEC
2 count3 9
3 place1 BBC
3 count1 5
3 place2 BBC
3 count2 4
Ultimately, I want a table where every possible place name is its own column, and the count per place per ID is summed up, like so:
ID ABC BEC CDE BBC
1 5 0 0 0
2 0 21 6 0
3 0 0 0 9
I don't know the best way to go about this. There are around 50 different possible place names, so specifically listing them out in a query isn't ideal. I know I ultimately have to pivot the data, but I don't know if I should do it before or after I sum up the counts. And whether it's before or after, I haven't been able to figure out how to go about summing it up.
Any ideas/help would be greatly appreciated. At this point, I'm having a hard time finding where to even start. I've seen a few posts with similar problems, but nothing quite as convoluted as this.
EDIT:
Right now I'm working with this to pivot the table, but this leaves me with columns named place1, place2, .... count1, count2,...
and I don't know how to appropriately sum up the counts and make new columns with the place names.
DECLARE #cols NVARCHAR(MAX), #query NVARCHAR(MAX);
SET #cols = STUFF(
(
SELECT DISTINCT
','+QUOTENAME(c.[ColumnName])
FROM #temp c FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
).value('.', 'nvarchar(max)'), 1, 1, '');
SET #query = 'SELECT [ID], '+#cols+'from (SELECT [ID],
[DataValue] AS [amount],
[ColumnName] AS [category]
FROM #temp
)x pivot (max(amount) for category in ('+#cols+')) p';
EXECUTE (#query);

Answer 1

Your table structure is pretty bad. You'll need to normalize your data before you can attempt to pivot it. Try this:
;WITH IDs AS
(
SELECT DISTINCT
id
,ColId = RIGHT(ColumnName, LEN(ColumnName) - 5)
,Place = datavalue
FROM #temp
WHERE ISNUMERIC(datavalue) = 0
)
,Counts AS
(
SELECT DISTINCT
id
,ColId = RIGHT(ColumnName, LEN(ColumnName) - 5)
,Cnt = CAST(datavalue AS INT)
FROM #temp
WHERE ISNUMERIC(datavalue) = 1
)
SELECT
piv.id
,ABC = ISNULL(piv.ABC, 0)
,BEC = ISNULL(piv.BEC, 0)
,CDE = ISNULL(piv.CDE, 0)
,BBC = ISNULL(piv.BBC, 0)
FROM (SELECT i.id, i.Place, c.Cnt FROM IDs i JOIN Counts c ON c.id = i.id AND c.ColId = i.ColId) src
PIVOT ( SUM(Cnt)
FOR Place IN ([ABC], [BEC], [CDE], [BBC])
) piv;
Doing it with dynamic SQL would yield the following:
SET #query =
';WITH IDs AS
(
SELECT DISTINCT
id
,ColId = RIGHT(ColumnName, LEN(ColumnName) - 5)
,Place = datavalue
FROM #temp
WHERE ISNUMERIC(datavalue) = 0
)
,Counts AS
(
SELECT DISTINCT
id
,ColId = RIGHT(ColumnName, LEN(ColumnName) - 5)
,Cnt = CAST(datavalue AS INT)
FROM #temp
WHERE ISNUMERIC(datavalue) = 1
)
SELECT [ID], '+#cols+'
FROM
(
SELECT i.id, i.Place, c.Cnt
FROM IDs i
JOIN Counts c ON c.id = i.id AND c.ColId = i.ColId
) src
PIVOT
(SUM(Cnt) FOR Place IN ('+#cols+')) piv;';
EXECUTE (#query);

Answer 2

Try this out:
SELECT id,
COALESCE(ABC, 0) AS ABC,
COALESCE(BBC, 0) AS BBC,
COALESCE(BEC, 0) AS BEC,
COALESCE(CDE, 0) AS CDE
FROM
(SELECT id,
MIN(CASE WHEN columnname LIKE 'place%' THEN datavalue END) AS col,
CAST(MIN(CASE WHEN columnname LIKE 'count%' THEN datavalue END) AS INT) AS val
FROM t
GROUP BY id, RIGHT(columnname, 1)
) src
PIVOT
(SUM(val)
FOR col in ([ABC], [BBC], [BEC], [CDE])) pvt
Tested here: http://rextester.com/XUTJ68690
In the src query, you need to re-format your data, so that you have a unique id and place in each row. From there a pivot will work.

Answer 3

If the count is always immediately after the place, the following query will generate a data set for pivoting.
The result data set before pivoting has the following columns:
id, placename, count
select placeTable.id, placeTable.datavalue, countTable.datavalue
from
(select *, row_number() over (order by id, %%physloc%%) as rownum
from test
where isnumeric(datavalue) = 1
) as countTable
join
(select *, row_number() over (order by id, %%physloc%%) as rownum
from test
where isnumeric(datavalue) <> 1
) as placeTable
on countTable.id = placeTable.id and
countTable.rownum = placeTable.rownum
Tested on sqlfidde mssqlserver: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!6/701c91/18

Answer 4

Here is one other approach using PIVOT operator with dynamic style
declare #Col varchar(2000) = '',
#Query varchar(2000) = ''
set #Col = stuff(
(select ','+QUOTENAME(DataValue)
from table where isnumeric(DataValue) = 0
group by DataValue for xml path('')),1,1,'')
set #Query = 'select id, '+#Col+' from
(
select id, DataValue,
cast((case when isnumeric(DataValue) = 1 then DataValue else lead(DataValue) over (order by id) end) as int) Value
from table
) as a
PIVOT
(
sum(Value) for DataValue in ('+#Col+')
)pvt'
EXECUTE (#Query)
Note : I have used lead() function to access next rows data if i found character string values and replace with numeric data values
Result :
id ABC BBC BEC CDE
1 5 NULL NULL NULL
2 NULL NULL 21 6
3 NULL 9 NULL NULL