How make this eav query to make horizontal result

Question

The case:

tables:

product:
product_id|name        |
------------------------
1         |iphone 4    |
2         |gallaxy 2   |
3         |blackbery 6 |

product_attribute:

id|product_id|attribute_id
--------------------------------------------------
 1 |1        |2
 2 |1        |6
 .    .        .

attribute:
------------------------------
attribute_id|name  |value|
        1   |width |300
        2   |width |320
        3   |width |310
        4   |height|390
        5   |height|370
        6   |height|380

should get result:

product_id|height|width
 1        |380   |320
 ......................

Edit: height and width attributes its only part of product attributes - product need to have dynamic ability to be added by the user in backend as it done in magento, because that i choose eav db design. Please write queries if it possible in case we dont know which names product have.

Thanks

Answer 1

There are several ways to implement this. Something like this should work joining back on the table multiple times for each attribute value:

SELECT p.product_id,
    a.value height,
    a2.value width
FROM Product p
    JOIN Product_Attribute pa ON p.product_id = pa.product_id 
    JOIN Attribute a ON pa.attribute_id = a.attribute_id AND a.name = 'height'
    JOIN Product_Attribute pa2 ON p.product_id = pa2.product_id 
    JOIN Attribute a2 ON pa2.attribute_id = a2.attribute_id AND a2.name = 'width'

And here is the Fiddle.

Here is an alternative approach using MAX and GROUP BY that I personally prefer:

SELECT p.product_id,
    MAX(Case WHEN a.name = 'height' THEN a.value END) height,
    MAX(Case WHEN a.name = 'width' THEN a.value END) width
FROM Product p
    JOIN Product_Attribute pa ON p.product_id = pa.product_id 
    JOIN Attribute a ON pa.attribute_id = a.attribute_id 
GROUP BY p.product_id

Good luck.