In this blog post, we will learn how to group sets of values into a comma-separated list, for each group, using the MySQL GROUP_CONCAT() function. Continue reading for more information…
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I’m using this fictitious ‘group_member’ table for the query data and example. There are 4 distinct groups: 100, 200, 300, and 400 respectively.
To place each ‘member_name’ alphabetically in its respective group, we can use the GROUP_CONCAT() function and GROUP BY the ‘group_num’ column, specifying a comma as the SEPARATOR value:
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