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Exercise

Turning columns into rows

In the previous exercise, you turned the names of the products you had in the rows into columns, and then you summarized the units of the products for every year.

Suppose you stored the result from the previous exercise in a new table called pivot_sales, and now you want to turn the columns notebooks, pencils, and crayons into row values.

The expected result will be:

| year_of_sale | units | product_name |
|--------------|-------|--------------|
| 2018         | 150   | notebooks    |
| 2018         | 150   | pencils      |
| 2018         | 80    | crayons      |
| 2019         | 230   | notebooks    |
| 2019         | 130   | pencils      |
| 2019         | 170   | crayons      |

Instructions

100 XP
  • Use the appropriate operator to convert columns into rows.
  • Write the name of the resulting column that will contain the turned columns.
  • Write the names of the columns you want to turn into rows.
  • Give to the UNPIVOT operator the alias unpivot_sales.