I am on SQL Server 2008 and I have a table containing WA metrics of the following form :

CREATE TABLE #VistitorStat

(

 datelow datetime,

 datehigh datetime,

 name varchar(255),

 cnt  int

)

Two days worth of data in the table looks like so:

2009-07-25 00:00:00.000 2009-07-26 00:00:00.000   New Visitor       221

2009-07-25 00:00:00.000 2009-07-26 00:00:00.000   Unique Visitors   225

2009-07-25 00:00:00.000 2009-07-26 00:00:00.000   Return Visitors   0

2009-07-25 00:00:00.000 2009-07-26 00:00:00.000   Repeat Visitors   22

2009-07-26 00:00:00.000 2009-07-27 00:00:00.000   New Visitor       263

2009-07-26 00:00:00.000 2009-07-27 00:00:00.000   Unique Visitors   269

2009-07-26 00:00:00.000 2009-07-27 00:00:00.000   Return Visitors   4

2009-07-26 00:00:00.000 2009-07-27 00:00:00.000   Repeat Visitors   38

I want to group by the days and pivot the metrics into row form. The examples for using the PIVOT operator that I can find only show aggregation based on the SUM and 

MAX aggregate function. Presumably I need to convey GROUP BY semantics to the PIVOT operator -- note: I can't find any clear examples/ documentation on how to 

achieve this. Could someone please post the correct syntax of this -- with the use of the PIVOT operator -- of this query.

If this is not possible with pivot -- can you come up with an elegant way of writing the query ? If not i'll just have to generate the data in transposed form.

-- post answer edit --

I have come to the conclusion that the pivot operator is unrelenting (so far so that I consider it a syntax hack) -- I have solved the problem by generating the data 

in a transposed fashion. I welcome comments.