how to generate a query in SQL SERVER 2005 which gives output like Matrix? - sql-server-2005

Question

H i have column which consists of 32 rows. like
ColumnA
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
while retrieving i want (4 X 8) means 4 columns 8 Rows.The Result should be like this
A B C D
1 9 17 25
2 10 18 26
3 11 19 27
4 12 20 28
5 13 21 29
6 14 22 30
7 15 23 31
8 16 24 32
Give me an Idea.

Answer 1

Something like this using CTE and row_number():
Fiddle demo
declare #numRows int = 8
;with cte as (
select columnA X, row_number() over (order by columnA) rn
from Table1
)
select c1.x A, c2.x B, c3.x C, c4.x D
from cte c1
left join cte c2 on c1.rn = c2.rn-#numRows
left join cte c3 on c1.rn = c3.rn-(#numRows * 2)
left join cte c4 on c1.rn = c4.rn-(#numRows * 3)
where c1.rn <= #numRows
results:
| A | B | C | D |
|---|----|----|----|
| 1 | 9 | 17 | 25 |
| 2 | 10 | 18 | 26 |
| 3 | 11 | 19 | 27 |
| 4 | 12 | 20 | 28 |
| 5 | 13 | 21 | 29 |
| 6 | 14 | 22 | 30 |
| 7 | 15 | 23 | 31 |
| 8 | 16 | 24 | 32 |

Answer 2

I can't see how to do it with a pivot given the lack of extra columns in the query making aggregation difficult. If you do have other columns then pivot would be less code consuming; but I'm not a pivot expert. You can do it easily enough with a few joins … used my tally table to generate the list of integers
SELECT
aa.StaticInteger as A,
bb.StaticInteger as B,
cc.StaticInteger as C,
dd.StaticInteger as D
FROM
tblTally aa
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(
SELECT
StaticInteger
FROM
tblTally
WHERE
StaticInteger BETWEEN 9 AND 16
) bb
ON
aa.StaticInteger = bb.StaticInteger - 8
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(
SELECT
StaticInteger
FROM
tblTally
WHERE
StaticInteger BETWEEN 17 AND 24
) cc
ON
bb.StaticInteger = cc.StaticInteger - 8
LEFT OUTER JOIN
(
SELECT
StaticInteger
FROM
tblTally
WHERE
StaticInteger BETWEEN 25 AND 32
) dd
ON
cc.StaticInteger = dd.StaticInteger - 8
WHERE
aa.StaticInteger BETWEEN 1 AND 8
Returns
A B C D
1 9 17 25
2 10 18 26
3 11 19 27
4 12 20 28
5 13 21 29
6 14 22 30
7 15 23 31
8 16 24 32