Few things deserve the attention of a long rant as much as unneccessarily complicated syntaxes. When you want to achieve something that is clearly defined and supported, but you have to look up the the syntax. PIVOT and UNPIVOT are examples of such features, and in this case, I’ll even show you a more well-performing alternative.
Tag: unpivot
“Unpivot” using CROSS APPLY
I personally find the UNPIVOT syntax in T-SQL a bit unwieldy and not entirely easy to read. In this article, I’m going to show you an alternative way to perform UNPIVOT, using the CROSS APPLY operator.