Select Top User over a list of Pages - sql

Question

I have a table containing records of Users' internet history. The table's structure contains the User_ID, the Page Accessed, and the Date Accessed of the page. For Example:
+==========================================+
|User_ID | Page_Accessed | Date_Accessed |
+==========================================+
|Johh.Doe | Google | 1/1/2015 |
|Johh.Doe | Google | 1/1/2015 |
|Suzy.Lue | Google | 7/11/2015 |
|Suzy.Lue | Wikipedia | 4/23/2015 |
|Babe Ruth| StackOverflow | 9/1/2015 |
+==========================================+
I am currently trying to use a SQL query that uses:
RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY [Page Accessed] ORDER BY Count(DateAcc))
Then I use a PIVOT() by the Various Sites. However after selecting the records WHERE (Num = 1) from the PIVOT() and a GROUP BY [Rank], I'm ending up with resulting query similar to:
+=================================================+
|Rank | Google | Wikipedia | StackOverflow |
+=================================================+
| 1 | John Doe| NULL | NULL |
| 1 | NULL | Suzy Lue | NULL |
| 1 | NULL | NULL | Babe Ruth |
+=================================================+
Instead I need to reformat my output as:
+=================================================+
|Rank | Google | Wikipedia | StackOverflow |
+=================================================+
| 1 | John Doe| Suzy Lue | Babe Ruth |
+=================================================+
My Current Query:
SELECT Rank, Google, Wikipedia, StackOverflow
FROM(
SELECT TOP (100) PERCENT User_ID, Page_Accessed, COUNT(Date_Accessed) AS Views,
RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY Page_Accessed ORDER BY Count(Date_Accessed) DESC) AS Rank
FROM Record_Table
GROUP BY dbo.location_key.subSite, dbo.user_info_list_parse.Name
ORDER BY Views DESC) AS tb
PIVOT (
max(tb.User_ID) FOR
Page_Accessed IN ( Google, Wikipedia, StackOverflow)
) pvt
WHERE (Num = 1)
Are there any creative solutions to obtain this result?

Answer 1

I think you've already found solution but for your information and for others reading this - let me erase noise in this query. There is no need to ORDER BY, no need to apply TOP (100) PERCENT, Views column is redundant. I would simplify this query as follows:
CREATE TABLE InternetHistory
(
[User_ID] varchar(20),
[Page_Accessed] varchar(20),
[Date_Accessed] datetime
)
INSERT InternetHistory VALUES
('Johh.Doe', 'Google', '2015-01-01'),
('Johh.Doe', 'Google', '2015-01-01'),
('Suzy.Lue', 'Google', '2015-07-11'),
('Suzy.Lue', 'Wikipedia', '2015-04-23'),
('Babe Ruth', 'StackOverflow', '2015-01-09')
SELECT * FROM
(
SELECT [User_ID], [Page_Accessed], RANK() OVER (PARTITION BY [Page_Accessed] ORDER BY COUNT(*) DESC) Ranking
FROM InternetHistory
GROUP BY [User_ID], [Page_Accessed]
) AS Src
PIVOT
(
MAX([User_Id]) FOR [Page_Accessed] IN ([Google], [Wikipedia], [StackOverflow])
) AS Pvt
WHERE Ranking = 1