Understanding PIVOT function in T-SQL

Question

I am very new to SQL.

I have a table like this:

ID | TeamID | UserID | ElementID | PhaseID | Effort
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Answer 1

These are the very basic pivot example kindly go through that.

SQL SERVER – PIVOT and UNPIVOT Table Examples

Example from above link for the product table:

SELECT PRODUCT, FRED, KATE
FROM (
SELECT CUST, PRODUCT, QTY
FROM Product) up
 PIVOT (SUM(QTY) FOR CUST IN (FRED, KATE)) AS pvt
ORDER BY PRODUCT

renders:

 PRODUCT FRED  KATE
 --------------------
 BEER     24    12
 MILK      3     1
 SODA   NULL     6
 VEG    NULL     5

Similar examples can be found in the blog post Pivot tables in SQL Server. A simple sample