MYSQL select from table where field is in the field - mysql

Question

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id | id_list
1 | 2,3,5,7
2 | 1,4,5,6
3 | 1,4,6,7
4 | 2,3,5,8
5 | 1,2,4,8
6 | 2,3,7,8
7 | 1,3,6,9
8 | 4,5,6,9
9 | 7,8
let's say I'm up to the content of id=1
I wanted to select all the rows where id is in id_list of id=1 PLUS the row where id=1
so the result would be
rows with id = 1,2,3,5,7
How to do this query guys?

Answer 1

You can also use a self join
Using IN()
select * from atable a
join atable b on (a.id = b.id )
where 1 IN (a.id_list) or b.id =1
Fiddle with IN()
Using FIND_IN_SET()
select * from atable a
join atable b on (a.id = b.id )
where FIND_IN_SET('1', a.id_list) or b.id =1
Fiddle with FIND_IN_SET()
Using UNION ALL
select * from atable
where id =1
UNION ALL
select * from atable
where 1 IN (id_list)
Fiddle with UNION ALL

Answer 2

Your database design is broken; id_list should be represented as a join table instead of as a string. However, to solve your immediate problem:
select * from table where id=1
or id_list like '1%'
or id_list like '%,1,%'
or id_list like '%,1'
Adjust as needed for PreparedStatement. You have to provide all three cases because if you just did
or id_list like '%1%'
and id_list contained the value 11, you'd get an incorrect match

Answer 3

Try this (see SQL-Fiddle):
SELECT * FROM tbl
WHERE id = 1
OR INSTR((SELECT id_list FROM tbl WHERE id = '1'), id) > 0;
Tested with MySQL 5.5.30

Answer 4

try this one
select *
from tbl
where id=1
or id_list like '%1%'

Answer 5

This appears to call for a union of two sets. The one set would be the single row whose id matches the specified value:
SELECT
id
FROM
atable
WHERE
id = #id
The other set would be the result of this self-join:
SELECT
item.id
FROM
atable AS item
INNER JOIN
atable AS list
ON
FIND_IN_SET(item.id, list.id_list)
WHERE
list.id = #id
That is, the row with the specified id is matched against every row in the table on the condition that the other row's id is found in the specified row's id_list.
You can try the complete query at SQL Fiddle.
Please note that lists aren't a very good design feature. In your situation, it might be better to use a many-to-many table as suggested by #Othman. Only I would probably use a slightly different query to get the desired output, because his doesn't include the specified row itself:
SELECT
id
FROM
manytomany
WHERE
id = #id
UNION
SELECT
linked_id
FROM
manytomany
WHERE
id = #id
;
While the entries in manytomany are assumed to be unique, the query uses the UNION DISTINCT operator because of the potential duplicates returned by the first subquery, although it is possible to move the application of DISTINCT to the first subquery only like this:
SELECT DISTINCT
id
FROM
manytomany
WHERE
id = #id
UNION ALL
SELECT
linked_id
FROM
manytomany
WHERE
id = #id
;
That first subquery could actually be rewritten simply as SELECT #id AS id, but the rewrite would only make sense if the passed value was guaranteed to be valid, i.e. that it would definitely be found in manytomany.id.
Here's a demo for the other approach too (all three variations, including the SELECT #id AS id one).

Answer 6

I don't have an answer for your question but I encourage you to redesign your table like this I think this called many to many relation
id | friend
1 | 2
1 | 3
1 | 5
1 | 7
2 | 1
2 | 4
2 | 5
2 | 6
3 | 1
3 | 4
3 | 6
3 | 7
And then your query will be like this
SELECT DISTINCT(friend) FROM `new` WHERE id = 1

Answer 7

I am assuming you are using php..
My suggestion is to grab the id_list for id 1.
Explode that id_list on the comma, and then do another mysql query to grab the remaining results for 5|3|6|8
ex) $idarray = explode(",", $result);
select * from your_table where id in ('5','3','6','8')
OPTION 2:
SELECT * FROM your_table
WHERE id = '1'
OR id IN ('\''+(SELECT REPLACE(id_list,',','\',\'') FROM your_table WHERE id = '1')+'\'')
EDIT: Oops, sorry, that should be an OR instead.