create a comma-separated string from multiple rows

user09445
user09445 Member
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If you think of it, it's basically reverse engineer the process of "splitting a string into multiple rows".

I have a long list of values that are already split into different rows from the original data source, but now I want to put them back in a single string, separated by the commas.

How do I do that? my data is relatively large. 

sample of original data source:

customers_idcarrier_requested
342062UPS WSV
342062UPS GD
342062UPS 3D
194343UPS ST
194343UPS SP1
194343UPS WXP

 sample of ideal output:

customers_idcarrier_requested
342062UPS WSV, UPS GD, UPS 3D
194343UPS ST, UPS SP1, UPS WXP

Comments

  • Valiant
    Valiant Coach

    So you'll need to use a SQL transform for your dataset.

     

    It would go something like this:

    SELECT `customers_id`, GROUP_CONCAT(`carrier_requested` SEPARATOR ', ') as 'carrier_requested'
    FROM data_source
    GROUP BY `customers_id`

    The MySQL GROUP_CONCAT function looks like what you'd want to use.

     

    Hope this helps,

    ValiantSpur

     

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