I'm working with data that has not been normalized. If it were up to me and I had the time, I'd go in and change all the code so that the data were normalized, but right now that's not an option.
The data I'm working with looks like this: table1.columnA = '1;3;4;6;8;9;12;13;14;15'; table2.columnA = '3'; table2.columnB = 'this'; I need to write a query that will do something along these lines: SELECT * FROM table1, table2 WHERE table2.columnB = 'this' AND table1.columnA LIKE CONCAT( '%', table2.columnA, '%' ); The above query obviously does not work. But I hope you get the idea of what I am trying to do. I won't have the value of '3' to specify in the WHERE part of the query as that value is going to be a result of the set. But using that value, I need to get the records from table1 where the columnA value of table2 is part of the columnA value of table1. thnx, Chris -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
