Mysql GROUP BY similar fields - mysql

Question

Suppose I have this table with customer orders:
orderid Name Email Address_1 Address_2 City* Zip*
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1 James j#j.com 12 Foo St Fooville 1001
2 Alice a#a.com 92 Bla Road Sville 3933
3 James j#j.c0m 12 Foo Street Fooville 1001
4 james king j#j.com 12 Foo St Fooville 1001
5 Anth ann#h.com 12 Foo Street Stacker 2932
6 James j#j.com 12 American St GiftCity 0283
To save postage costs (for us), it would be ideal if we could send multiple orders going to the same person, to the same address in one print slip. For this, I need a unique record for id 1, 3, 4.
The City and Zip codes cannot be entered by the user (selected from a drop down).
Ideally, I would like the following to be returned by my query:
orderid Name Email Address_1 Address_2 City* Zip* Count
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1 James j#j.com 12 Foo St Fooville 1001 3
2 Alice a#a.com 92 Bla Road Sville 3933 1
5 Anth ann#h.com 12 Foo Street Stacker 2932 1
Essentially, the SQL algorithm is doing a group by on similar on the following columns: Name, Email, concat(Address_1 and Address_2).
Any advice and solutions would be highly appreciated.
If there is a way to do a
GROUP BY similar((concat(name,email,address_1)
(really sorry about the hopeless pseudo-code.. just trying to get my thoughts across).

Answer 1

Well instead of discussion here is a query modify according to your requirements
select
orderid ,
name ,
email ,
address_1 ,
address_2 ,
city ,
zip ,
count(orderid)
from test
group by name
order by orderid
Brings out this
Name Email Address_1 Address_2 City Zip Count
1 James j#j.com 12 Foo St Fooville 1001 3
2 Alice a#a.com 92 Bla Road Sville 3933 1
4 James King j#j.com 12 Foo St Fooville 1001 1
5 Anth ann#h.com 12 Foo St Stacker 2932 1