GROUP_CONCAT

GROUP_CONCAT

description

Syntax

VARCHAR GROUP_CONCAT([DISTINCT] VARCHAR str[, VARCHAR sep] [ORDER BY { col_name | expr} [ASC | DESC]])

This function is an aggregation function similar to sum (), and group_concat links multiple rows of results in the result set to a string. The second parameter, sep, is a connection symbol between strings, which can be omitted. This function usually needs to be used with group by statements.

Support Order By for sorting multi-row results, sorting and aggregation columns can be different.

caution

group_concat don't support using distinct with order by together.

example

mysql> select value from test;
+-------+
| value |
+-------+
| a     |
| b     |
| c     |
| c     |
+-------+

mysql> select GROUP_CONCAT(value) from test;
+-----------------------+
| GROUP_CONCAT(`value`) |
+-----------------------+
| a, b, c, c              |
+-----------------------+

mysql> select GROUP_CONCAT(value, " ") from test;
+----------------------------+
| GROUP_CONCAT(`value`, ' ') |
+----------------------------+
| a b c c                     |
+----------------------------+

mysql> select GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT value) from test;
+-----------------------+
| GROUP_CONCAT(`value`) |
+-----------------------+
| a, b, c               |
+-----------------------+

mysql> select GROUP_CONCAT(value, NULL) from test;
+----------------------------+
| GROUP_CONCAT(`value`, NULL)|
+----------------------------+
| NULL                       |
+----------------------------+

keywords

GROUP_CONCAT,GROUP,CONCAT