We had an AskTOM question come in recently where our customer was very excited about the PIVOT operator in SQL which lets you transpose rows to columns. This is a very common requirement in applications that want to take data that has been modelled in “pure” relational form, and present in a more “human-digestible” form. There are plenty of posts and examples out there about PIVOT, but if you haven’t seen one, here’s a trivial example just so that you are up to speed for the rest of this post.
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