Question

I’d like to use MySQL to find duplicates and then display those items as one, combined record. For example, I have two columns: Name and Fruit. A sampling of records might look like this:

Joe – Peaches

Faye – Bananas

Joe – Starfruit

Sam – Apples

I want to display this data as:

Joe – Peaches, Starfruit

Faye – Bananas

Sam – Apples

Is that possible? Could you help me with the MySQL query to start? I’m using VB.NET for my application. Thank you.

Answer 1

Use GROUP_CONCAT for that.

SELECT personName, GROUP_CONCAT(fruitName) fruitList
FROM tableName
GROUP BY personName