Converting the result of a MySQL table as per requirement - mysql

Question

The mysql table we work on has data in the following format:
entityId status updated_date
-------------------------------
1 1 29/05/2017 12:00
1 2 29/05/2017 03:00
1 3 29/05/2017 07:00
1 4 29/05/2017 14:00
1 5 30/05/2017 02:00
1 6 30/05/2017 08:00
2 1 31/05/2017 03:00
2 2 31/05/2017 05:00
.
.
So every entity id has 6 statuses, and every status has an update datetime. Each status has an activity attached to it.
For example 1 - Started journey
2 - Reached first destination
3 - Left Point A, moving towards B. etc
I need to get an output in the below format for specific entity id eg 3 and 4. I need the time for status 3 and 4 independently.
entity_id time_started_journey time_reached_first_destination
(update time of status 3) (update time of status 4)
--------------------------------------------------------------
1 29/05/2017 7:00 29/05/2017 14:00
2 30/05/2017 7:00 30/05/2017 16:00
Later I need to calculate the total time which would be the difference of the two.
How can I achieve the desired result using mysql.
I tried using Union operator but cannot do it separate columns.
Also, tried using case when operator with the below query but failed.
select distinct entityid,
(case status when 3 then freight_update_time else 0 end)
as starttime,
(case status when 4 then freight_update_time else 0 end) as endtime
from table ;
Can anyone throw light on this?

Answer 1

Conditional aggregation is one way to return a resultset that looks like that.
SELECT t.entityid
, MAX(IF(t.status=3,t.updated_date,NULL)) AS time_started_journey
, MAX(IF(t.status-4,t.updated_date,NULL)) AS time_reached_first_destination
FROM mytable t
WHERE t.status IN (3,4)
GROUP BY t.entityid
ORDER BY t.entityid
This is just one suggestion; the specification is unclear about what the query should do with duplicated status values for a given entityid.
There are other query patterns that will return similar results.

Answer 2

My query in MySQL
SELECT
e3.updated_date AS sta3,
e4.updated_date AS sta4
FROM
`prueba` AS e3
LEFT JOIN prueba AS e4
ON
e3.entityId = e4.entityId AND e4.status = 4
WHERE
e3.status = 3
OUTPUT: