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GROUP_CONCAT

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The GROUP_CONCAT() aggregate function is the MySQL version of the standard SQL LISTAGG function, to concatenate aggregate data into a string. It supports being used with an ORDER BY clause, which uses the expected syntax, unlike LISTAGG(), which uses the WITHIN GROUP syntax.

SELECT
  group_concat(ID),
  group_concat(ID ORDER BY ID),
  group_concat(ID SEPARATOR '; '),
  group_concat(ID ORDER BY ID SEPARATOR '; '),
FROM BOOK
create.select(
         groupConcat(BOOK.ID),
         groupConcat(BOOK.ID).orderBy(BOOK.ID),
         groupConcat(BOOK.ID).separator("; "),
         groupConcat(BOOK.ID).orderBy(BOOK.ID).separator("; "))
      .from(BOOK).fetch();

Producing:

+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| group_concat | group_concat | group_concat | group_concat |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+
| 1, 3, 4, 2   | 1, 2, 3, 4   | 1; 3; 4; 2   | 1; 2; 3; 4   |
+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

groupConcat(BOOK.ID)

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora MySQL, H2, HSQLDB, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL

group_concat(BOOK.ID SEPARATOR ',')

Aurora Postgres, DuckDB, Hana, Postgres

string_agg(CAST(BOOK.ID AS varchar), ',')

BigQuery, CockroachDB

string_agg(CAST(BOOK.ID AS string), ',')

DB2, Exasol, Redshift

listagg(BOOK.ID, ',')

Oracle

listagg(BOOK.ID, ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY NULL)

SQLite

group_concat(BOOK.ID, ',')

SQLServer

string_agg(CAST(BOOK.ID AS varchar(max)), ',')

Sybase

list(CAST(BOOK.ID AS varchar), ',')

Teradata

substring(xmlserialize(CONTENT xmlagg((',' || CAST(BOOK.ID AS varchar(32000)))) AS varchar(32000)) FROM 2)

Trino

listagg(CAST(BOOK.ID AS varchar), ',') WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY NULL)

ASE, Access, ClickHouse, Derby, Firebird, Informix, SQLDataWarehouse, Snowflake, Vertica, YugabyteDB

/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.20, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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