>I need to create a query that will provide 12 months of data that can be dropped into a spreadsheet via _vfp.dataclip(,,3) function. The results should look something like:
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> JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC
>ITEM1 12 13 9 12 6 21 13 15 12 16 9 12
>ITEM2 9 10 10 14 10 17 15 16 17 17 12 18
>ITEM3 11 17 16 16 16 23 12 14 16 18 20 17
>ETC ..
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>The only way I know to acquire this data is to run a SQL query with a monthly date range 12 times. I know there must be a way to write a single SQL statement that would pull all of this data at once but I'm not sure how to construct it.
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>Anyone available to give me an example of how to do this?
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>Thanks,
>Robert Wright

This can be done in a single command, more or less like this:

select ItemName,;
  sum(iif(month(DateField) = 1, ValueField, $0)) as Jan,;
  sum(iif(month(DateField) = 2, ValueField, $0)) as Feb,;
  ...