[SlugBug] MYSQL query help

Alan Dawson aland at burngreave.net
Wed Sep 6 16:03:16 BST 2006


Quoting Alan Dawson <aland at burngreave.net>:

> I have a query 
> 
> SELECT mdl_question_answers.id,mdl_question_answers.question FROM
> mdl_question_answers,mdl_question WHERE mdl_question.qtype='multichoice' AND
> mdl_question_answers.question=mdl_question.id
> 
..

> 
> but i want it like this
> 
> 39,40,41,42,43   11
> 54,55,56,57      37
> 58,59,60,61      38
> 62,63,64,65      39
> 
> I can then use these lines to create some INSERT's into another table
> 
> 
SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(mdl_question_answers.id),
mdl_question_answers.question FROM
mdl_question_answers,mdl_question WHERE
mdl_question.qtype='multichoice' AND
mdl_question_answers.question=mdl_question.id
GROUP BY mdl_question_answers.question;

did the trick .. thanks ;-)

AED
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