avg sale of quarter with previous quarter avg sale

Question

I have a table one in which there are various attribute like region product,year,qtr,month,sale. I have to calculate the avg_qtr sale of each product having same region and

Answer 1

Edited with the latest requirements.

Your problem is that you are trying to get the previous_avg by trying to manipulate QTR and YEAR. I'm using the RANK function, ordering the way I want the data ranked. In the joins I'm making sure that Average Region = Previous Region and disregarding year since the previous quarter could be Q4 of the Previous year for Average year Q1; it's cleaner this way.

    --Build the test table
    IF OBJECT_ID('SALES','U') IS NOT NULL
        DROP TABLE SALES

    CREATE TABLE SALES
    (
          Region  VARCHAR(255)
        , Product VARCHAR(10)
        , [Year]  INT
        , QTR     INT
        , [Month] VARCHAR(19)
        , Sales   DECIMAL(19,4)
    );

    INSERT SALES
    VALUES
         ('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 1, 'JAN', 1000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 1, 'FEB', 2000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 1, 'MAR', 3000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 2, 'APR', 4000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 2, 'MAY', 5000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 2, 'JUN', 6000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 3, 'JUL', 7000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 3, 'AUG', 8000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 3, 'SEP', 9000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 4, 'OCT', 1000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 4, 'DEC', 4000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2015, 4, 'NOV', 2000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P3', 2015, 1, 'FEB', 1000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P3', 2015, 1, 'FEB', 9000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P3', 2015, 2, 'APR', 2000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P3', 2015, 3, 'JUL', 8000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2016, 1, 'MAR', 3000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2016, 1, 'FEB', 1000)
        ,('NORTH', 'P1', 2016, 1, 'JAN', 2000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P1', 2015, 1, 'JAN', 2000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P1', 2015, 1, 'FEB', 3000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P1', 2015, 1, 'JAN', 4000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 1, 'MAR', 1000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 1, 'JAN', 8000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 1, 'FEB', 9000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 2, 'JUN', 9000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 2, 'MAY', 8000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 2, 'APR', 2000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 3, 'SEP', 4000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 3, 'AUG', 2000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 3, 'JUL', 1000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 4, 'NOV', 2000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 4, 'DEC', 1000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2015, 4, 'OCT', 5000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P3', 2015, 3, 'AUG', 9000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P3', 2015, 4, 'OCT', 1000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P3', 2015, 4, 'NOV', 3000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2016, 1, 'JAN', 2000)
        ,('SOUTH', 'P2', 2016, 1, 'JAN', 4000);


    --CTE TO CAPTURE AVG SALES BY REGION, PRODCUT, YEAR, QTR;  OMIT PRODUCT IF YOU WANT STRAIGHT UP QUARTER AVG, REGARDLESS OF PRODCUCT
    WITH cteAvgSales AS
    (
        SELECT Region, Product, [Year], QTR, AVG(Sales) current_avg
            , RANK() OVER(ORDER BY Region, Product, [Year], QTR) AS RNK
        FROM SALES
        GROUP BY Region, Product, [Year], QTR
    )
    SELECT s.Region, s.Product, s.[Year] AS [year], s.QTR AS [quarter], s.[Month], s.Sales, a.current_avg, p.current_avg AS previous_avg
    FROM SALES s
        INNER JOIN cteAvgSales a ON a.Region = s.Region
            AND a.Product = s.Product
            AND a.[Year]  = s.[Year]
            AND a.QTR = s.QTR
        LEFT JOIN cteAvgSales p ON p.Region = a.Region
            AND p.Product = s.Product
            AND p.RNK=a.RNK-1
    ORDER BY s.Region, s.Product, s.[Year], s.QTR