Join one row to multiple rows in another table

Question

Use:

   SELECT x.name,
          GROUP_CONCAT(y.property SEPARATOR ', ')
     FROM PEOPLE x
LEFT JOIN PROPERTIES y ON y.name = x.name
    WHERE x.age > 26
 GROUP BY x.name

You want the MySQL function GROUP_CONCAT (documentation) in order to return a comma separated list of the PROPERTIES.property value.

I used a LEFT JOIN rather than a JOIN in order to include PEOPLE records that don’t have a value in the PROPERTIES table – if you only want a list of people with values in the PROPERTIES table, use:

   SELECT x.name,
          GROUP_CONCAT(y.property SEPARATOR ', ')
     FROM PEOPLE x
     JOIN PROPERTIES y ON y.name = x.name
    WHERE x.age > 26
 GROUP BY x.name

I realize this is an example, but using a name is a poor choice for referencial integrity when you consider how many “John Smith”s there are. Assigning a user_id, being a unique value per user, would be a better choice.

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