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Asked: 2026-06-13T16:47:46+00:00

this is a revised question from previous one. I decided to open a new

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this is a revised question from previous one. I decided to open a new question since the scope has changed.

This is what I want to achieve.

List the last name of the author(s) of the book in an “Author” column, the last name of the author to be listed first, followed (after a comma) by that of the author to be listed second if any; and if there is a third author, put it after the second author’s name. The order of the author of a book is listed in the au_ord column (1=First Author, 2=Second Author, 3=Third Author).

Any idea how to achieve this in MYSQL output?

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Those are the source table. The desired output is something like this:

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  1. Editorial Team

    All you need is a GROUP_CONCAT function.

    SELECT title_id, GROUP_CONCAT(au_lname ORDER BY au_ord)
FROM table
GROUP BY title_id

    The GROUP BY clause groups all individual (distinct) titles, and the GROUP_CONCAT on it concatenates all the authors of it. This would list all the titles and their corresponding authors. If au_lname is from another table than from title_id table, then you will have to use appropriate joins. I am not sure what are the table names from your question.

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