Question

I have a table which holds events. Each event has a name, but events are grouped based on their name.

+---------------+
| NAME          |
+---------------+
| EVENT 1 CHILD |
| EVENT 1 ADULT |
+---------------+

Is a sample row. However, when I query for the events, I only want to show one of the event names.

So essentially I only want EVENT 1 ADULT to be displayed, as the child is linked to it via it’s name.

I’m not sure how I would do this purly in MySQL, I know I could perform a query then strip out the events with PHP, but it seems silly to do this if I can do it with MySQL.

Any advice on how to tackle this problem?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can just read the date where there is only ADULT like this:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE NAME LIKE '%ADULT%';

Or, if it is always at the end:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE NAME LIKE '% ADULT';

But, if you need it case sensitive, try this:

SELECT * FROM table WHERE NAME LIKE BINARY '%ADULT%';