You can use the PIVOT table operator instead, something like this:
SELECT *
FROM
(
SELECT
DATENAME(MONTH,DateOpened) as Month,
DATENAME(Year,DateOpened) AS Year,
DateOpened
FROM Incidents
) AS t
PIVOT
(
COUNT(DateOpened)
FOR Year IN([2013], [2014], [2015])
) AS p;
If you don't need to write the list of years and do it dynamically for any year, you have to use dynamic SQL to run the query dynamically, like this:
DECLARE @cols AS NVARCHAR(MAX);
DECLARE @query AS NVARCHAR(MAX);
SELECT @cols = STUFF((SELECT distinct ',' +
QUOTENAME(DATENAME(Year,DateOpened))
from Incidents AS t
FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)')
, 1, 1, '');
SELECT @query = 'SELECT * , '+ @cols + '
FROM
(
select
DATENAME(MONTH,DateOpened) as Month,
DATENAME(Year,DateOpened) AS Year,
DateOpened
FROM Incidents
) AS t
PIVOT
(
COUNT(DateOpened)
FOR Year IN(' + @cols + ')' +
') p';
execute(@query);
This will give you something like this:
| Month | 2014 | 2015 | 2014 | 2015 |
|-----------|------|------|------|------|
| April | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| August | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| December | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| February | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| July | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| September | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Note that: Both the queries won't list any month that has no dates on the original table. If you want to list any month that is not listed on the table with counts 0, you have to modify the anchor query so that it lists all the months even if not listed:
SELECT
m.Name as Month,
i.Year,
i.DateOpened
FROM
(
VALUES ('Janurary'), ('February'), ('March'),
('April'), ('May'), ('June'),
('July'), ('August'), ('September'),
('October'), ('November'), ('December')
) AS m(Name)
LEFT JOIN
(
SELECT
DATENAME(MONTH,DateOpened) as Month,
DATENAME(Year,DateOpened) AS Year,
DateOpened
FROM Incidents
) AS i ON i.Month = m.Name
and replace it in the dynamic query.
This will give you the missing months with zeros results:
| Month | 2014 | 2015 | 2014 | 2015 |
|-----------|------|------|------|------|
| Janurary | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <<
| February | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| March | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <<
| April | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| May | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <<
| June | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <<
| July | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| August | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| September | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| October | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <<
| November | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | <<
| December | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |