How to Use Group by to Concatenate Strings in MySQL

How to use GROUP BY to concatenate strings in MySQL?

SELECT id, GROUP_CONCAT(name SEPARATOR ' ') FROM table GROUP BY id;

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/aggregate-functions.html#function_group-concat

From the link above, GROUP_CONCAT: This function returns a string result with the concatenated non-NULL values from a group. It returns NULL if there are no non-NULL values.

How to use GROUP BY to concatenate strings in SQL Server?

No CURSOR, WHILE loop, or User-Defined Function needed.

Just need to be creative with FOR XML and PATH.

[Note: This solution only works on SQL 2005 and later. Original question didn't specify the version in use.]

CREATE TABLE #YourTable ([ID] INT, [Name] CHAR(1), [Value] INT)

INSERT INTO #YourTable ([ID],[Name],[Value]) VALUES (1,'A',4)
INSERT INTO #YourTable ([ID],[Name],[Value]) VALUES (1,'B',8)
INSERT INTO #YourTable ([ID],[Name],[Value]) VALUES (2,'C',9)

SELECT 
  [ID],
  STUFF((
    SELECT ', ' + [Name] + ':' + CAST([Value] AS VARCHAR(MAX)) 
    FROM #YourTable 
    WHERE (ID = Results.ID) 
    FOR XML PATH(''),TYPE).value('(./text())[1]','VARCHAR(MAX)')
  ,1,2,'') AS NameValues
FROM #YourTable Results
GROUP BY ID

DROP TABLE #YourTable

How to use GROUP BY to concat strings in mysql

You can use the GROUP_CONCAT() function get the values into a single row and you can use user-defined variables to assign the number to each value in the sid group:

select sid,
  group_concat(concat(rn, '. ', string) ORDER BY id SEPARATOR ' ') string
from
(
  select id,
    sid,
    string,
    @row:=case when @prev=sid then @row else 0 end +1 rn,
    @prev:=sid
  from yourtable
  cross join (select @row:= 0, @prev:=null) r
  order by id
) src
group by sid

See SQL Fiddle with Demo, The result is:

| SID |        STRING |
-----------------------
|   1 | 1. AAA 2. BBB |
|   2 |        1. CCC |
|   3 | 1. ZZZ 2. EEE |

MySQL String concatenation of Title and Name

You need to join the titles table to get the values from it. Use an on for how the data should join.

SELECT CONCAT(t.title, '. ', pt.FirstName)
FROM PatientTable as pt
join Title as t 
on pt.PatTitleLookup = t.id
WHERE pt.PatientTableID = 1

I also have used aliases (as pt, as t) here for your tables, makes referencing shorter later in queries.

How to use GROUP BY to concatenate strings while joining multiple tables?

You can specify a CTE – common table expression to store your temporary result :

with cteTbl ( CardID
            , TechName
            , problemReported ) as ( 
select j.CardID
     , p.ProblemReported
     , ( select TechnicianName
         from easy_tbltechnicianMaster
         where TechnicianID =  t.technicianID ) as TechName
from easy_tbljobcard as j 
join easy_technician as t on t.CardID = j.CardID  
left join easy_tblproblem as p  on p.CardID = t.CardID )

And then select from it and concatenate all column values with the same t.techName and t.CardID in one row with for xml path('') and after that replace the first comma , with stuff:

select t.CardID
     , t.TechName
     , stuff( ( select ', ' + ProblemReported
                from cteTbl
                where TechName = t.TechName
                order by ProblemReported
                for xml path('') ), 1, 1, '') AS ProblemReported
from cteTbl t
group by t.TechName
       , t.CardID

SQLFiddle

How to use GROUP_CONCAT in a CONCAT in MySQL

select id, group_concat(`Name` separator ',') as `ColumnName`
from
(
  select 
    id, 
    concat(`Name`, ':', group_concat(`Value` separator ',')) as `Name`
  from mytbl
  group by 
    id, 
    `Name`
) tbl
group by id;

You can see it implemented here : Sql Fiddle Demo. Exactly what you need.

Update
Splitting in two steps. First we get a table having all values(comma separated) against a unique[Name,id]. Then from obtained table we get all names and values as a single value against each unique id
See this explained here SQL Fiddle Demo (scroll down as it has two result sets)

Edit There was a mistake in reading question, I had grouped only by id. But two group_contacts are needed if (Values are to be concatenated grouped by Name and id and then over all by id). Previous answer was

select 
id,group_concat(concat(`name`,':',`value`) separator ',')
as Result from mytbl group by id

You can see it implemented here : SQL Fiddle Demo

Concatenating strings in the return set of a GROUP BY clause in CockroachDB

You can use the concat_agg function on the column you want to concatenate together.

Using your example above, you’d run:

SELECT concat_agg(Description)
FROM Orders
GROUP BY Order_ID
ORDER BY Order_ID;

This will produce an output with all of the descriptions concatenated, grouped by order id.

Can I concatenate multiple MySQL rows into one field?

You can use GROUP_CONCAT:

SELECT person_id,
   GROUP_CONCAT(hobbies SEPARATOR ', ')
FROM peoples_hobbies
GROUP BY person_id;

As Ludwig stated in his comment, you can add the DISTINCT operator to avoid duplicates:

SELECT person_id,
   GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT hobbies SEPARATOR ', ')
FROM peoples_hobbies
GROUP BY person_id;

As Jan stated in their comment, you can also sort the values before imploding it using ORDER BY:

SELECT person_id, 
       GROUP_CONCAT(hobbies ORDER BY hobbies ASC SEPARATOR ', ')
FROM peoples_hobbies
GROUP BY person_id;

As Dag stated in his comment, there is a 1024 byte limit on the result. To solve this, run this query before your query:

SET group_concat_max_len = 2048;

Of course, you can change 2048 according to your needs. To calculate and assign the value:

SET group_concat_max_len = CAST(
                     (SELECT SUM(LENGTH(hobbies)) + COUNT(*) * LENGTH(', ')
                           FROM peoples_hobbies
                           GROUP BY person_id) AS UNSIGNED);

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