Crosstab Query Example

Crosstab Query example with a slight twist to the simple Microsoft Access crosstab query that may not seem obvious to you.

In this query example we want only the totals by month and we don't care about department.

TRANSFORM Sum([M_Sales].[Amount]) AS SumOfAmount
SELECT "Total" AS Total
FROM M_Sales
GROUP BY "Total"
PIVOT Format([M_Sales].[Sale_date],"mmm") In ("Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec");

We need to select something so I put in the constant 'Total' so that the query will run.  We don't want to see 'Total' in the first column so we will hide this column.  Here are the results:

Tip:  If you need to do some restriction to select only certain records then create that query first and use it as the input to the crosstab query.

It will make the Access crosstab query simpler for you.

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