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.