mysql table structure with multiple variables

Question

I am writing a script which will counts the number of ticket as per as different conditions and store the count in a summary table. I am unable to understand how to structure my

Answer 1

Wrong approach. Do not splay an array across columns. Instead have rows for the data. This lets you trivially "add" another month.

For displaying, well that is an application problem, no a MySQL problem. Sure, you can write specialized queries to "pivot" the data from rows to columns, but it is messy.

Answer 2

Have columns Date Service Count.

Like so.

Date            Service      Count
16 May 2016     Service1     35

Then when you go to display them in the report pivot them as you want. Probably better to make date an INT and either an auto number PK or composite PK of Date and Service.