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MariaDB Cookbook

MariaDB Cookbook

By : Daniel Bartholomew
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MariaDB Cookbook

MariaDB Cookbook

4.2 (9)
By: Daniel Bartholomew

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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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MariaDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the PIVOT table type


The PIVOT table type is very useful to sort and sum the columns in a table. It's similar to GROUP BY but with a more understandable layout. This sort of task is often used to sort and sum columns of data in a desktop spreadsheet program.

How to do it...

  1. Launch the mysql command-line client application and connect to the test database on our MariaDB server. If the test database does not exist, create it first.

  2. Run the following CREATE TABLE statement to create an expenses table:

    CREATE TABLE expenses ( 
      who varchar(64), 
      day varchar(10), 
      what varchar(64), 
      amount varchar(10) 
    );
    
  3. Add some data to the table by executing the following command lines:

    INSERT expenses VALUES 
      ("Daniel","2013-09-01","Clothing",42.50), 
      ("Amy","2013-09-02","Food",5.22), 
      ("Daniel","2013-09-01","Clothing",27.75), 
      ("Daniel","2013-09-03","Food",10.27), 
      ("Amy","2013-09-03","Gas",42.84), 
      ("Amy","2013-09-01","Food",15.01), 
      ("Amy","2013-09-01","Clothing",11.00), 
      ("Daniel...

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