If I have a table with the following data in MySQL:
Company CompanyEntity OrderNumber Delivery Date Deeway HS 20779 4608580 2020-11-11 Deeway Pearl HS 20780 4608580 2020-11-11 Deeway Stony HS 1273 4608558 2020-11-11 Zaper LTD 9995 4630230 2020-11-11 Zaper CP LTD 4295 4607371 2020-11-11 Wilder 4224 6630210 2020-11-11 Wilder 4224 7601371 2020-11-11
I need it to look like this:
Company CompanyEntity OrderNumber Delivery Date Deeway HS,Deeway Pearl HS,Deeway Stony HS 20779,20780,1273 4608580,4608558 2020-11-11 Zaper LTD,Zaper CP LTD 9995,4295 4630230,4607371 2020-11-11 Wilder 4224 6630210,7601371 2020-11-11
I’ve tried:
SELECT
nextgenorder_companyname,
nextgenorder_company_entity,
nextgenorder_ordernumber,
nextgenorder_deliverydate
    FROM nextgenorders2
WHERE nextgenorder_deliverydate='2020-11-11'
GROUP BY nextgenorder_companyname,nextgenorder_company_entity
ORDER BY nextgenorder_companyname
Which does not give me the results I want. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
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Answer
You need to use GROUP_CONCAT to aggregate your values, and based on your sample data you want to group by the first word in the name, so you can use SUBSTRING_INDEX to extract that. To deal with possible / in the name as a separator instead of space, you can REPLACE them:
SELECT
    GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT nextgenorder_companyname) AS Company,
    GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT nextgenorder_company_entity) AS CompanyEntity,
    GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT nextgenorder_ordernumber) AS OrderNumber,
    GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT nextgenorder_deliverydate) AS `Delivery Date`
FROM nextgenorders2
WHERE nextgenorder_deliverydate='2020-11-11'
GROUP BY SUBSTRING_INDEX(REPLACE(nextgenorder_companyname, '/', ' '), ' ',1)
ORDER BY SUBSTRING_INDEX(REPLACE(nextgenorder_companyname, '/', ' '), ' ',1)
Output:
Company CompanyEntity OrderNumber Delivery Date Deeway HS,Deeway Pearl HS,Deeway Stony HS 20779,20780,1273 4608580,4608558 2020-11-11 Wilder 4224 6630210,7601371 2020-11-11 Zaper/LTD,Zaper CP LTD 9995,4295 4630230,4607371 2020-11-11