Pivot in SQL: count not working as expected - sql

Question

I have in my Oracle Responsys Database a table that contains records with amongst other two variables:
status
location_id
I want to count the number of records grouped by status and location_id, and display it as a pivot table.
This seems to be the exact example that appears here
But when I use the following request :
select * from
(select status,location_id from $a$ )
pivot (count(status)
for location_id in (0,1,2,3,4)
) order by status
The values that appear in the pivot table are just the column names :
output :
status 0 1 2 3 4
-1 0 1 2 3 4
1 0 1 2 3 4
2 0 1 2 3 4
3 0 1 2 3 4
4 0 1 2 3 4
5 0 1 2 3 4
I also gave a try to the following :
select * from
(select status,location_id , count(*) as nbreports
from $a$ group by status,location_id )
pivot (sum(nbreports)
for location in (0,1,2,3,4)
) order by status
but it gives me the same result.
select status,location_id , count(*) as nbreports
from $a$
group by status,location_id
will of course give me the values I want, but displaying them as a column and not as a pivot table
How can I get the pivot table to have in each cell the number of records with the status and location in row and column?
Example data:
CUSTOMER,STATUS,LOCATION_ID
1,-1,1
2,1,1
3,2,1
4,3,0
5,4,2
6,5,3
7,3,4
The table data types :
CUSTOMER Text Field (to 25 chars)
STATUS Text Field (to 25 chars)
LOCATION_ID Number Field

Answer 1

Please check if my understanding for your requirement is correct, you can do vice versa for the location column
create table test(
status varchar2(2),
location number
);
insert into test values('A',1);
insert into test values('A',2);
insert into test values('A',1);
insert into test values('B',1);
insert into test values('B',2);
select * from test;
select status,location,count(*)
from test
group by status,location;
select * from (
select status,location
from test
) pivot(count(*) for (status) in ('A' as STATUS_A,'B' as STATUS_B))