SQL Pivot Table isn't working - sql

Question

SQL 2005
I have a temp table:
Year PercentMale PercentFemale PercentHmlss PercentEmployed TotalSrvd
2008 100 0 0 100 1
2009 55 40 0 80 20
2010 64 35 0 67 162
2011 69 27 0 34 285
2012 56 43 10 1 58
and I want to create a query to display the data like this:
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
PercentMale 100 55 64 69 56
PercentFemale - 40 35 27 43
PercentHmlss - - - - 10
PercentEmployed 100 80 67 34 1
TotalSrvd 1 20 162 285 58
Can I use a pivot table to accomplish this? If so, how? I've tried using a pivot but have found no success.
select PercentHmlss,PercentMale,Percentfemale,
PercentEmployed,[2008],[2009],[2010],[2011],[2012] from
(select PercentHmlss,PercentMale, Percentfemale, PercentEmployed,
TotalSrvd,year from #TempTable)as T
pivot (sum (TotalSrvd) for year
in ([2008],[2009],[2010],[2011],[2012])) as pvt
This is the result:
PercentHmlss PercentMale Percentfemale PercentEmployed [2008] [2009] [2010] [2011] [2012]
0 55 40 80 NULL 20 NULL NULL NULL
0 64 35 67 NULL NULL 162 NULL NULL
0 69 27 34 NULL NULL NULL 285 NULL
0 100 0 100 1 NULL NULL NULL NULL
10 56 43 1 NULL NULL NULL NULL 58
Thanks.

Answer 1

For this to work you will want to perform an UNPIVOT and then a PIVOT
SELECT *
from
(
select year, quantity, type
from
(
select year, percentmale, percentfemale, percenthmlss, percentemployed, totalsrvd
from t
) x
UNPIVOT
(
quantity for type
in
([percentmale]
, [percentfemale]
, [percenthmlss]
, [percentemployed]
, [totalsrvd])
) u
) x1
pivot
(
sum(quantity)
for Year in ([2008], [2009], [2010], [2011], [2012])
) p
See a SQL Fiddle with a Demo
Edit Further explanation:
You were close with your PIVOT query that you tried, in that you got the data for the Year in the column format that you wanted. However, since you want the data that was contained in the columns initially percentmale, percentfemale, etc in the row of data - you need to unpivot the data first.
Basically, what you are doing is taking the original data and placing it all in rows based on the year. The UNPIVOT is going to place your data in the format (Demo):
Year Quantity Type
2008 100 percentmale
2008 0 percentfemale
etc
Once you have transformed the data into this format, then you can perform the PIVOT to get the result you want.