Can you split/explode a field in a MySQL query?

Question

I have to create a report on some student completions. The students each belong to one client. Here are the tables (simplified for this question).

CREATE TAB         


        

Answer 1

If you need get table from string with delimiters:

SET @str = 'function1;function2;function3;function4;aaa;bbbb;nnnnn';
SET @delimeter = ';';
SET @sql_statement = CONCAT('SELECT '''
                ,REPLACE(@str, @delimeter, ''' UNION ALL SELECT ''')
                ,'''');
SELECT @sql_statement;
SELECT 'function1' UNION ALL SELECT 'function2' UNION ALL SELECT 'function3' UNION ALL SELECT 'function4' UNION ALL SELECT 'aaa' UNION ALL SELECT 'bbbb' UNION ALL SELECT 'nnnnn'