Rename columns in SQL - mysql

Question

I want to (directly) generate a table with the content from 2 columns of another table. How ca I change the names of the columns (rename them in the new table)?
Here´s an example:
CREATE TABLE X AS
SELECT
Table1.name,
Table1.act
FROM Y
->I don´t want to name the columns "name" and "act" as in the original table - I want to have "name" replaced by "customer" and "act" replaced by "status"

Answer 1

Do it like this:
CREATE TABLE X AS
SELECT
Table1.name as customer,
Table1.act as status
FROM Y

Answer 2

You could just specify name aliases in the query:
CREATE TABLE X AS
SELECT
Table1.name AS customer,
Table1.act AS status
FROM Y
Alternatively, you could specify the column definitions in brackets after the table name:
CREATE TABLE X (customer VARCHAR(10), status VARCHAR(10)) AS
SELECT
Table1.name,
Table1.act
FROM Y

Answer 3

You will need to use a While Loop to do that:
$my_query = "SELECT * FROM tj_ethnicity FROM Table_X";
while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($my_query))
{
$new_query = "CREATE TABLE `."$row['customer']".` (
`customerid` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`status` varchar(50) DEFAULT ."$row['status']".,
`created` datetime NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`customerid`)
)";
}