Thanks.. It doesn't seem to work though.. I did verify I am on 5.0
mysql> select service_names.name as 'Service',
-> group_concat (hosts.name)
-> from monarch.hosts as hosts, monarch.services as services,
monarch.service_names as service_names
-> where
-> hosts.host_id=services.host_id
-> and service_names.servicename_id=services.servicename_id
-> group by service_name.name
->
->
-> ;
ERROR 1305 (42000): FUNCTION mysql.group_concat does not exist
-----Original Message-----
From: Baron Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:00 PM
To: Andrey Dmitriev
Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com
Subject: Re: query question
Hi,
Andrey Dmitriev wrote:
> This is kind of achievable in Oracle in either sqlplus mode, or with
the
> use of analytical functions. Or in the worst case by writing a
function.
>
> But basically I have a few tables
> Services, Hosts, service_names
>
>
> And I can have a query something like
>
>
> select service_names.name as 'Service', hosts.name as 'Host'
> from hosts, services, service_names
> where
> hosts.host_id=services.host_id
> and service_names.servicename_id=services.servicename_id
> order by service_names.name
>
> Which outputs something like
>
> | SSH | mt-ns4
> |
> | SSH | tsn-adm-core
> |
> | SSH | tsn-juno
> |
> | SSH | tsn-tsn2
>
> However, the desired output is one line per service name, so something
> like
>
> | SSH | mt-ns4,
> tsn-adm-core, tsn-juno, tsn-tsn2 |
>
>
> Can this be done w/o writing procedural code in mysql?
Yes. Have a look at GROUP_CONCAT().
Baron
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