MySQL: how to convert to EAV?

Question

Say I have the following table:

TABLE: one
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| id | first_name | last_name |
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| 1  | John       | Doe       |
| 2  | Jane       | Smith     |
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I want to convert it to an EAV:

TABLE: two
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| id | fk_id | attribute  | value |
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| 1  | 1     | first_name | John  |
| 2  | 1     | last_name  | Doe   |
| 3  | 2     | first_name | Jane  |
| 4  | 2     | last_name  | Smith |
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Note:

• two.fk_id values came from one.id
• two.attribute values came from one.first_name
• two.value values came from one.last_name

I need to create table two from table one so I can run some tests.

Answer 1

I'm assuming two.id is an autoincrementing integer, so I'll leave it to the target table to assign those values.

select id as fk_id, 'first_name' as attribute, first_name as value
from one
union all
select id as fk_id, 'last_name', last_name
from one
order by fk_id, attribute

Answer 2

For the love of god, don't use EAV!!!! If you need that, use a NoSQL database instead!