Re: Left outer join trouble

2007-10-28 Thread Morten
Martin Gainty wrote: Good Morning- Good afternoon :-) http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/09/04/group_concat-useful-group-by- extension/ I did'nt see your where clause ? I'm probably missing your point here. But there's no "where clause" because I want all records from the tickets tab

Re: Left outer join trouble

2007-10-28 Thread Morten
Baron Schwartz wrote: I'm tempted to solve this using a view or two, but would like to know if there's a better way. GROUP_CONCAT() takes an optional DISTINCT modifier, and that might do what you're looking for. It sure does the trick. I'll use that, I was afraid that I was missing somet

Re: Left outer join trouble

2007-10-28 Thread Baron Schwartz
Hi, Morten wrote: Hi, I'm trying to write a query which returns a single record which contains concatenated values for referencing records: SELECT tickets.id AS id, CAST(GROUP_CONCAT(tags.name SEPARATOR ' ') AS CHAR) AS tags, CAST(GROUP_CONCAT(events.value SEPARATOR ' ') AS CH

Left outer join trouble

2007-10-28 Thread Morten
Hi, I'm trying to write a query which returns a single record which contains concatenated values for referencing records: SELECT tickets.id AS id, CAST(GROUP_CONCAT(tags.name SEPARATOR ' ') AS CHAR) AS tags, CAST(GROUP_CONCAT(events.value SEPARATOR ' ') AS CHAR) AS text FROM tic