Question

I have a table with the following columns:

boxid - nouns - username

1 - w1,w2,w3 - user1
1 - w3,w2,w4 - user2
1 - w1,w8,w5 - user1
2 - w7,w2,w5 - user2

and at the present I have a query that allows me to extract the following:

SELECT boxid, group_concat(concat(username,":",nouns) SEPARATOR "|") as listn  
FROM table group by boxid;

that query gives me back the following:

box1 - user1:w1,w2,w3|user2:w3,w2,w4|user1:w1,w8,w5

However, I would like to get all nouns of the same user without repeating users (but repeating words of every user), something like the following result:

box1 - user1:w1,w2,w3,w1,w8,w5|user2:w3,w2,w4

Can someone show me if this can be done with mysql and how? I have no idea of this…

(I can do this with php, but I think getting the direct result in sql would be faster…)

Thanks in advance…

Answer 1

Try this:

SELECT boxid, group_concat(concat(username,":",nouns_list) SEPARATOR "|") as listn  
  FROM 
    (
    SELECT boxid, username, group_concat(nouns)  as nouns_list
        FROM table 
    GROUP BY boxid, username
) a
GROUP BY boxid