Question

I have 3 tables: game, platform, and game_platform.

game:

id    name               desc
----  ------------       ---------
1     Modern Warfare...  Awesome game......
2     ...                ...
3     ...                ...

platform:

id    name
----  ------------
1     pc
2     ps3
3     ...

game_platform:

game_id    platform_id
--------   -----------
1          1
1          2
...        ...

What I want is to get a row containing data from the game table and also all the platforms for that game.

However with a regular query I get multiple rows for games with more than one platform. Is there a way to get them on a single row?

Answer 1

You don’t provide an example of desired output. If you want all the platforms brought back in one column this will do it.

   SELECT g.id, g.name, g.desc, GROUP_CONCAT(P.name) AS platforms
    from game g
    JOIN game_platform gp ON gp.game_id = g.id
    JOIN platform P ON gp.platform_id = p.id
    GROUP BY g.id, g.name, g.desc