Accomplish pivot in teradata sql

Question

Say I have a query that returns values like this:

id    type     value
aaa   1a        10
aaa   1b        20
aaa   1c        7
bbb   2a        10
bbb   1a            


        

Answer 1

There is no pivot function in Teradata SQL. A similar question was answered here - teradata sql pivot multiple occurrences into additional columns.

To best achieve what you wanted without having to write out 250 cases manually, you should use ordered analytical functions in some kind of a loop or a set. Try searching "loop" tag from Teradata Developer Exchange - http://developer.teradata.com/tag/loop

Here's how I would do it: Use another programming language (Python) to reiterate over a text/premade SQL and change it's only two variables 250 times, from 1 to 250, and generate the full long sql. Only reiterate the part between SELECT DISTINCT id and last FROM mytable row:

SELECT DISTINCT
id
-- reiteration starts here
,(SELECT SUM(value) -- assuming you have unique types for every id
  FROM (SELECT DISTINCT
    id
    ,value
    ,type
    FROM mytable
    QUALIFY (RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY type ORDER BY id ASC))=1 -- variable 1
    )
) AS type_1 -- variable 2
-- reiteration ends here
FROM mytable

You can use this python:

for i in range(1,251):
    print " \
,(SELECT SUM(value) -- assuming you have unique types for every id \
FROM (SELECT DISTINCT \
id \
,value \
,type \
FROM mytable \
QUALIFY (RANK() OVER(PARTITION BY type ORDER BY id ASC))=%d -- variable 1 \
) \
) AS type_%d -- variable 2 \
" % (i,i)