What Joins to use to join multiple tables together into one view - mysql

Question

I have a db in mysql with multiple tables and would like to join multiple tables into one view to save me from having to build 3 or 4 sql statements or even one large joining statement in php to get the same info.
Here are all my tables that I want to join
track_title
+----+------------------+
| ID | TITLE |
+----+------------------+
| 1 | Title Here |
| 2 | Another Title |
| 3 | Some Other Title |
+----+------------------+
track_artist
+----+----------------+-----------+-----------+
| ID | TRACK_TITLE_ID | ARTIST_ID | SYMBOL_ID |
+----+----------------+-----------+-----------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
+----+----------------+-----------+-----------+
artist
+----+-------------+
| ID | ARTIST |
+----+-------------+
| 1 | Linkin Park |
| 2 | Metallica |
+----+-------------+
symbol
+----+--------+
| ID | SYMBOL |
+----+--------+
| 1 | |
| 2 | Feat. |
+----+--------+
tracklisting
+----+----------+----------+---------------+---------+
| ID | TRACK NO | TITLE_ID | VERSION | DISC NO |
+----+----------+----------+---------------+---------+
| 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | 2 | Album Version | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | 3 | Live Version | 1 |
+----+----------+----------+---------------+---------+
This is the final view I'm looking for
+----+----------+------------------+---------------+-----------------------------+---------+
| ID | TRACK NO | TITLE | VERSION | ARTIST | DISC NO |
+----+----------+------------------+---------------+-----------------------------+---------+
| 1 | 1 | Title Here | | Linkin Park Feat. Metallica | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | Another Title | Album Version | | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | Some Other Title | Live Version | Linkin Park | 1 |
+----+----------+------------------+---------------+-----------------------------+---------+
I have been bashing my head for the past 3 days with left, right, join and full join and just can't seem to get this to work.
Basically what I want to happen is the track_artist table will get the artist and symbol form the respective tables and concat them together into one column. Then join title and the concat column to have this view.
full_artist_view
+----------+------------------+-----------------------------+
| TITLE_ID | TITLE | FULL_ARTIST |
+----------+------------------+-----------------------------+
| 1 | Title Here | Linkin Park Feat. Metallica |
| 2 | Another Title | |
| 3 | Some Other Title | Linkin Park |
+----------+------------------+-----------------------------+
I have gotten this far but when I try join this to the tracklisting table I seem to crash my server which is getting very painful. No mysql error so I'm guessing I'm using the wrong join or this is just not possible.(though I can't see how this is not possible)
The tracklisting table is continuesly growing every week by 1000 records comfortable and is sitting at +- 75000 records.
To me this is the sql that should work, but doesn't
FROM full_artist_view LEFT JOIN tracklisting ON
full_artist_view.TITLE_ID = tracklisting.TITLE_ID

Answer 1

While I have only your small data sample and I can't see what your full_artist_view code looks like. You should be able to get the result using the following:
select tt.id,
tl.`track no`,
tt.title,
coalesce(tl.version, '') version,
group_concat(concat(coalesce(a.artist, ''), ' ', coalesce(s.symbol, '')) order by a.artist SEPARATOR ' ') artist,
tl.`disc no`
from track_title tt
inner join tracklisting tl
on tt.id = tl.TITLE_ID
left join track_artist ta
on tt.id = ta.TRACK_TITLE_ID
left join artist a
on ta.artist_id = a.id
left join symbol s
on ta.symbol_id = s.id
group by tt.id, tl.`track no`, tt.title, tl.version, tl.`disc no`
See SQL Fiddle with Demo. This returns:
| ID | TRACK NO | TITLE | VERSION | ARTIST | DISC NO |
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| 1 | 1 | Title Here | | Linkin Park Feat. Metallica | 1 |
| 2 | 1 | Another Title | Album Version | | 1 |
| 3 | 1 | Some Other Title | Live Version | Linkin Park | 1 |

Answer 2

Quick play, and I think (but not certain) it is something like this that you need:-
SELECT a.Id, a.Track_No, b.Title, a.Version, GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT(d.Artists, e.Symbol)), a.Disc_No
FROM tracklisting a
INNER JOIN track_title b ON a.Title_id = b.Id
LEFT OUTER JOIN track_artist c ON b.Id = c.Track_Title_Id
LEFT OUTER JOIN artist d ON c.Artist_Id = d.Id
LEFT OUTER JOIN symbol e ON d.SymbolId = e.Id
GROUP BY a.Id, a.Track_No, b.Title, a.Version, a.Disc_No
But I might have missed something so let me know!