How to write a SQL query implementing Excel SUMIFS function

Question

I have a table like this:

Date        Sales   Department Store
02/01/2012   4.09    Toys       A
03/01/2012   5.90    Toys       A
02/01/2012   6.64    Toys          


        

Answer 1

Your query is ok, but it can be improved a bit:

SELEC Date,
      MAX(CASE WHEN Department = 'Toys' THEN Sales else 0 END) as [Toys],
      MAX(CASE WHEN Department = 'Movies' THEN Sales else 0 END) as [Movies]
FROM Table$
WHERE store in ('A', 'B')
GROUP BY Date
ORDER BY Date;

This removes the distinct, which is unnecessary with a group by. It moves the condition on store to the where clause, because it applies to all the rows. And, it removes the ISNULL() by including else 0 in the case statement -- so stores with no sales in the department will return a 0 instead of NULL.