I want to transpose the data

Question

I am having the data like this
1
1
b1
1
2
b2
1
3
b3
1
4
b4
2
1
a1
2
2
a2
2
3
a3
2
4
a4
3
1
c1
3
2
c2
3
3
c3
3
4
c4
I want to display like this
b1
b2
b3
b4
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
a1
a2
a3
a4
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
c1
c2
c3
c4
1
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
please help me here

Answer 1

I'm not sure that the way you want it be done is a classical transposing, which is literally rotation counterclockwise. The classical transposing can be done via PIVOT query but the result will be
b1 b2 b3 b4 a1 a2 a3 a4 c1 c2 c3 c4
1   1  1   1   2   2   2  2   3   3  3   3
1   2  3   4   1   2   3  4   1   2  3   4
So, there is no elegant way of doing your task. Especially, without VBA, I see the only way is a UNION ALL query. 
E.g. you have a table
t1
f1
f2
f3
1
1
b1
1
2
b2
1
3
b3
1
4
b4
2
1
a1
2
2
a2
2
3
a3
2
4
a4
3
1
c1
3
2
c2
3
3
c3
3
4
c4
<tfoot></tfoot>
You have 3 queries:
f_1
f1
1
2
3
4
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
2
3
3
3
3
3
<tfoot></tfoot>
TRANSFORM Max(t1.f1) AS [Max-f1]
SELECT t1.f1
FROM t1
GROUP BY t1.f1
PIVOT t1.f2;
f_2
f1
1
2
3
4
1
1
2
3
4
2
1
2
3
4
3
1
2
3
4
<tfoot></tfoot>
TRANSFORM Max(t1.f2) AS [Max-f2]
SELECT t1.f1
FROM t1
GROUP BY t1.f1
PIVOT t1.f2;
f_3
f1
1
2
3
4
1
b1
b2
b3
b4
2
a1
a2
a3
a4
3
c1
c2
c3
c4
<tfoot></tfoot>
TRANSFORM Max(t1.f3) AS [Max-f3]
SELECT t1.f1
FROM t1
GROUP BY t1.f1
PIVOT t1.f2;
And finally, the UNION ALL query:
piv
f1
1
2
3
4
1
b1
b2
b3
b4
1
1
2
3
4
1
1
1
1
1
2
a1
a2
a3
a4
2
1
2
3
4
2
2
2
2
2
3
c1
c2
c3
c4
3
1
2
3
4
3
3
3
3
3
<tfoot></tfoot>
select [f1], [1], [2], [3], [4] from f_1
UNION ALL
select [f1], [1], [2], [3], [4] from f_2
UNION ALL select [f1], [1], [2], [3], [4] from f_3
ORDER BY [f1], [4] DESC;
It's rather simple for your example with 3 letters and 4 numbers. As soon as you have, at least, 10 variations, it will be pure delirium.
Andrey V Artemyev | Saint-Petersburg, Russia