Matching a value to multiple columns (in one statement) from a table using MySQL

Question

I\'m working with a table in MySQL that contains the following columns:

id, january, february, march, april, etc

The data in the table looks li

Answer 1

I understand what Mr.Smith is trying to do.

It's a question of 12 rows x 4 columns vs. 1 row x 12 columns.

The former table design would be something like:

id, someone's id, month, value x 12 per month

1, 101, january, 1
2, 101, february, 1
3, 101, march, 0
etc..

The corresponding sql statement to this would be:

$sqlQuery = "SELECT month FROM my_month_table WHERE value = 1";

What I'm guessing Mr.Smith is trying:

id, someone's id, january, february, march ...

$sqlQuery = "SELECT corrensponding_column_names_to_where_clause FROM my_month_table WHERE column_value = 1";