Group_concat: its used to concatenate column values into a single string.
Create a table
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `users` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `name` varchar(200) DEFAULT NULL, `country` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, `company` varchar(150) DEFAULT NULL, `created` datetime DEFAULT NULL, `modified` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;
Following are examples
select group_concat(name) as all_user where country='india'List all the name separated by comma (,)
for example: arun,raj,suman,arun,ansh
select group_concat(name SEPARATOR '--') as all_user where country='india'List all the name separated by double dash(--)
for example: arun--raj--suman--arun--ansh
select group_concat(name order by name asc) as all_user where country='india'List all the name separated by comma (,) but order by name
for example: arun,arun,raj,suman,ansh
select group_concat(distinct name) as all_user where country='india'List all the name separated by comma (,) but with distinc name only
for example: arun,raj,suman,ansh