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Mysql GROUP_CONCAT return only one value

Time:02-05

I try to return how many friends a user have through GROUP_CONCAT But i only get Lance and not also Bob and it seems if i remove the WHERE condition. It works fine, but i would like to keep it. Since i want get all rows which are connected to member

CREATE TABLE users(
    id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
    name VARCHAR(255)
);

INSERT INTO users (name)
VALUES ("Gregor"),
    ("Liza"),
    ("Matt"),
    ("Tim"),
    ("Lance"),
    ("Bob");
    
CREATE TABLE committee(
    id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
    user_id INT,
    friend_id INT,
    member_id INT,
    FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`id`),
    FOREIGN KEY (`friend_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`id`),
    FOREIGN KEY (`member_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`id`)
);
INSERT INTO committee (user_id, friend_id, member_id)
VALUES (3, 5, 1),
(4, 5, 1),
(3, 6, 2),
(4, 6, 2);

Here is the query:

SELECT u.name,
       GROUP_CONCAT(f.name) AS friends
FROM committee c
INNER JOIN users u ON (u.id = c.user_id)
INNER JOIN users AS f ON (f.id = c.friend_id)
WHERE (c.member_id = 1)
GROUP BY u.id;

What i get now:

name    friends
Matt    Lance
Tim Lance

What i expect:

name    friends
Matt    Lance,Bob
Tim Lance,Bob

CodePudding user response:

You need another join with committee to find all the other committees that Matt and Tim are on, so you can find their friends from those committees.

SELECT u.name,
       GROUP_CONCAT(f.name) AS friends
FROM committee c
INNER JOIN users u ON (u.id = c.user_id)
INNER JOIN committee c2 ON c2.user_id = c.user_id
INNER JOIN users AS f ON (f.id = c2.friend_id)
WHERE (c.member_id = 1)
GROUP BY u.id;

DEMO

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