Case statement in MySQL

Solution 1:

Yes, something like this:

SELECT
    id,
    action_heading,
    CASE
        WHEN action_type = 'Income' THEN action_amount
        ELSE NULL
    END AS income_amt,
    CASE
        WHEN action_type = 'Expense' THEN action_amount
        ELSE NULL
    END AS expense_amt

FROM tbl_transaction;

As other answers have pointed out, MySQL also has the IF() function to do this using less verbose syntax. I generally try to avoid this because it is a MySQL-specific extension to SQL that isn't generally supported elsewhere. CASE is standard SQL and is much more portable across different database engines, and I prefer to write portable queries as much as possible, only using engine-specific extensions when the portable alternative is considerably slower or less convenient.

Solution 2:

MySQL also has IF():

SELECT 
  id, action_heading, 
      IF(action_type='Income',action_amount,0) income, 
      IF(action_type='Expense', action_amount, 0) expense
FROM tbl_transaction

Solution 3:

Try to use IF(condition, value1, value2)

SELECT ID, HEADING, 
IF(action_type='Income',action_amount,0) as Income,
IF(action_type='Expense',action_amount,0) as Expense

Solution 4:

This should work:

select 
  id
  ,action_heading
  ,case when action_type='Income' then action_amount else 0 end
  ,case when action_type='Expense' then expense_amount else 0 end
from tbl_transaction