MySQL pivot table with dynamic headers based on single column data

Question

I am trying to write a query to create a "table" of data as follows:

SELECT cs.`category_id`, cs.`ProcessDate`, cs.`PercentChange`
  FROM `Category_Statistics` cs
 WHERE cs.`ProcessDate` >= '2011-05-10'
   AND cs.`ProcessDate` <= '2011-05-14'

That would return something like:

CategoryId  |  ProcessDate  | PercentChange
-------------------------------------------
category_4  |  2011-05-10   |      10
category_4  |  2011-05-11   |      18
category_4  |  2011-05012   |      12
...
category_7  |  2011-05-10   |      21
category_7  |  2011-05-11   |      7
...
category_12 |  2011-05-10   |      7
category_12 |  2011-05-11   |      15

Now I want the results to be something like this (from a MySQL query, not using an application):

CategoryId    | 2011-05-10 | 2011-05-11 | 2011-05-12 | 2011-05-13 | 2011-05-14 |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
category_4    |     10     |     18     |     12     |      9     |      14    |
category_7    |     21     |      7     |     16     |      14    |      13    |
categeory_12  |      7     |     15     |     11     |      19    |       8    |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

There are two caveats:

• Date range may increase or decrease (depending on the request)

• PercentChange may be null in some (say category_7 / 2011-05-12 may not matter)

So, ultimately, I'm not quite sure how to build the selected part of the query to display the dynamic number of columns (I know this has something to do with CONCAT).

Edit → Partial Work Code →

SELECT `CategoryId`,
   MAX(IF(c.`ProcessedOn` = '2011-04-20', c.`PercentChange`, NULL)) AS '2011-04-20',
   MAX(IF(c.`ProcessedOn` = '2011-04-21', c.`PercentChange`, NULL)) AS '2011-04-21',
   MAX(IF(c.`ProcessedOn` = '2011-04-22', c.`PercentChange`, NULL)) AS '2011-04-22',
   MAX(IF(c.`ProcessedOn` = '2011-04-23', c.`PercentChange`, NULL)) AS '2011-04-23',
   MAX(IF(c.`ProcessedOn` = '2011-04-24', c.`PercentChange`, NULL)) AS '2011-04-24'
  FROM `Category_Gravity` c
 WHERE c.`ProcessedOn` >= '2011-04-20'
   AND c.`ProcessedOn` <= '2011-04-24'
 GROUP BY `CategoryId`

Now i need to do

MAX(IF(c.`ProcessedOn` = '2011-04-20', c.`PercentChange`, NULL)) AS '2011-04-20',

into something more dynamic (since date ranges will change me)

Answer 1

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create table `pivot` (
  `id` int(11) not null auto_increment,
  `categoryid` int(11) default null,
  `processdate` date default null,
  `percentchange` int(11) default null,
  primary key (`id`)
) engine=myisam auto_increment=9 default charset=latin1;

/*Data for the table `pivot` */

insert  into `pivot`(`id`,`categoryid`,`processdate`,`percentchange`) values (1,4,'2011-05-10',1);
insert  into `pivot`(`id`,`categoryid`,`processdate`,`percentchange`) values (2,4,'2011-05-11',22);
insert  into `pivot`(`id`,`categoryid`,`processdate`,`percentchange`) values (3,4,'2011-05-12',3);
insert  into `pivot`(`id`,`categoryid`,`processdate`,`percentchange`) values (4,7,'2011-05-10',4);
insert  into `pivot`(`id`,`categoryid`,`processdate`,`percentchange`) values (5,7,'2011-05-11',5);
insert  into `pivot`(`id`,`categoryid`,`processdate`,`percentchange`) values (6,12,'2011-05-10',6);
insert  into `pivot`(`id`,`categoryid`,`processdate`,`percentchange`) values (7,12,'2011-05-12',7);
insert  into `pivot`(`id`,`categoryid`,`processdate`,`percentchange`) values (8,4,'2011-05-13',12);



delimiter //
drop procedure if exists dynamic_view2//
create procedure dynamic_view2(in sdate date,in edate date)
begin
declare finish int default 0;
declare cdate date;
declare str varchar(10000) default "select categoryid,";
declare curs cursor for select processdate from pivot where processdate between sdate and edate group by processdate;
declare continue handler for not found set finish = 1;
open curs;
my_loop:loop
fetch curs into cdate;
if finish = 1 then
leave my_loop;
end if;
set str = concat(str, "max(case when processdate = '",cdate,"' then percentchange else null end) as `",cdate,"`,");
end loop;
close curs;
set str = substr(str,1,char_length(str)-1);
set @str = concat(str," from pivot
            group by categoryid");

prepare stmt from @str;
execute stmt;
deallocate prepare stmt;
end;//
delimiter ;


mysql> call dynamic_view2('2011-05-10','2011-05-13');
+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
| categoryid | 2011-05-10 | 2011-05-11 | 2011-05-12 | 2011-05-13 |
+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
|          4 |          1 |         22 |          3 |         12 |
|          7 |          4 |          5 |       NULL |       NULL |
|         12 |          6 |       NULL |          7 |       NULL |
+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)