SQL Server Pivot With Grand Total For Row And Column Sorting Issue In Left Side Data

Question

Using the below query to get the Grand Total for Row & Column in SQL server pivot which works as expected.

But the problem is the Question No is not sorting in asc to desc or desc to asc order.

Changing this

ORDER BY sQtnNo asc

to ascending/descending don't have any effect.

/* COLUMNS HEADERS */
DECLARE @columnHeaders NVARCHAR (MAX)
SELECT @columnHeaders  = COALESCE (@columnHeaders   
+ ',[' + sAnsText + ']', '[' + sAnsText + ']')


FROM   tblEntries  
GROUP BY sAnsText
ORDER BY sAnsText

/* GRAND TOTAL COLUMN */
DECLARE @GrandTotalCol  NVARCHAR (MAX)
SELECT @GrandTotalCol = COALESCE (@GrandTotalCol + 'ISNULL ([' + 
CAST (sAnsText AS VARCHAR) +'],0) + ', 'ISNULL([' + CAST(sAnsText AS VARCHAR)+ '],0) + ')
FROM     tblEntries 
  GROUP BY sAnsText
  ORDER BY sAnsText
  SET @GrandTotalCol = LEFT (@GrandTotalCol, LEN (@GrandTotalCol)-1)

/* GRAND TOTAL ROW */
DECLARE @GrandTotalRow  NVARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT @GrandTotalRow = COALESCE(@GrandTotalRow + ',ISNULL(SUM([' + 
CAST(sAnsText AS VARCHAR)+']),0)', 'ISNULL(SUM([' + CAST(sAnsText AS VARCHAR)+']),0)')
FROM     tblEntries  
  GROUP BY sAnsText
  ORDER BY  sAnsText
----------------------------------------------

  -- DROP TABLE  temp_MatchesTotal

/* MAIN QUERY */
DECLARE @FinalQuery NVARCHAR (MAX)
SET @FinalQuery =   'SELECT *, (' + @GrandTotalCol + ') 
AS [Grand Total] INTO  #temp_MatchesTotal
       FROM
          (SELECT  sQtnNo as ''Sort'',sQtnNo ,sAnsText,1 as ''Qty''
             FROM  tblEntries 
          ) A
       PIVOT
          (
              sum (Qty)
              FOR sAnsText
              IN ('  +@columnHeaders +  ') 
          ) B 
          
ORDER BY sQtnNo asc

SELECT * FROM  #temp_MatchesTotal 


UNION ALL

SELECT ''Grand Total'','''','+@GrandTotalRow +',  
ISNULL (SUM([Grand Total]),0) FROM  #temp_MatchesTotal
  DROP TABLE  #temp_MatchesTotal'
  -- PRINT 'Pivot Query '+@FinalQuery
  -- SELECT @FinalQuery
  EXECUTE(@FinalQuery)

Result is given below

Any suggestion will be highly helpful.

Thanks in advance.

When Using Try_Convert() Below Error Occurs

Answer 1

Like Is aid in the comments, your column is a varchar , and strings don't order in the same order as a numerical value. '14' has a lower value than '2' and '99' has a greater value than '843657365476547362' .

If you want your columns to order like a numerical value, you need to treat them as a numerical value:

ORDER BY CASE Sort WHEN 'Grand Total' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END ASC, --Put Grand Total at the bottom
         TRY_CONVERT(int,Sort) ASC;