MySQL dynamic-pivot

Question

I have a table of product parts like this:

Parts

part_id      part_type      product_id
--------------------------------------
1            A              1
2            B              1
3            A              2
4            B              2
5            A              3
6            B              3

and I want a query that will return a table like this:

product_id      part_A_id      part_B_id
----------------------------------------
1               1              2
2               3              4
3               5              6

In its actual implementation there will be millions of product parts

Answer 1

Unfortunately, MySQL does not have a PIVOT function but you can model it using an aggregate function and a CASE statement. For a dynamic version, you will need to use prepared statements:

SET @sql = NULL;
SELECT
  GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT
    CONCAT(
      'max(case when part_type = ''',
      part_type,
      ''' then part_id end) AS part_',
      part_type, '_id'
    )
  ) INTO @sql
FROM
  parts;
SET @sql = CONCAT('SELECT product_id, ', @sql, ' 
                  FROM parts 
                   GROUP BY product_id');

PREPARE stmt FROM @sql;
EXECUTE stmt;
DEALLOCATE PREPARE stmt;

See SQL Fiddle With Demo

If you had only a few columns, then you can use a Static version:

select product_id,
  max(case when part_type ='A' then part_id end) as Part_A_Id,
  max(case when part_type ='B' then part_id end) as Part_B_Id
from parts
group by product_id

Answer 2

SQL Server has a PIVOT keyword, but with MySQL you will need to use either a lot of CASE/IF statements or a lot of JOINs.

Here is a previous post of how to do this.