"Klaas Geldof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a question about MySQL queries. First I will explain the situation, > then I will provide an example. > > > Situation: > > I have the tables 'offer', 'contact' and 'offer_contact'. Table 'offer' > contains data about offers, table 'contact' about contacts. Table > 'offer_contact' tells which contacts are associated with which offers (since > offers can have multiple contacts associated with it and vice versa). Now I > want to run a query so I get a row for each offer and in the result there's > a field 'offer_contacts' which contains all the names of the contacts > associated with the offer on that row separated by comma's. > > > Example: > > Table 'offer' (offer_id - offer_title): > 1 - Test > 2 - Also test > > Table 'contact' (contact_id - contact_name): > 1 - John > 2 - Anna > > Table 'offer_contact' (offer_id - contact_id): > 1 - 1 > 1 - 2 > 2 - 1 > > Wanted result of query (offer_id - offer_name - offer_contacts): > 1 - Test - John, Anna > 2 - Also test - John > > > Is this possible? >
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