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Responses Re: storing record-array in varchar?  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
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hi list
 
how can something like this be achieved:
 
UPDATE mytable SET m_list = (SELECT DISTINCT s_id FROM sometable WHERE s_id > 6000) WHERE m_id = 10;
 
the field m_list would then hold something like '6001, 6002, 6003, 7000', which ideally i could later use for something like SELECT * FROM sometable JOIN mytable WHERE s_id IN m_list AND m_id = 10;
 
field m_list would idealy be a varchar if possible...
 
thanks,
thomas
 
 

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