SQL tag list and tag filtering

Question

I have a SQL database in which I store users and tags associated to users (many to many relationship). I have the classic schema with users table, tags

Answer 1

left join the tags table and include the id's being searched for in the join clause and check for counts in having.

SELECT u.id,u.name,GROUP_CONCAT(ut.tagid) as tags
FROM users u 
LEFT JOIN usertag as ut ON u.id = ut.userid 
LEFT JOIN tags t ON t.id=ut.tagid AND t.ID IN (10,20,30) --change this as needed
GROUP BY u.id,u.name
HAVING COUNT(ut.tagid) >= COUNT(t.id) AND COUNT(t.id) = 3 --change this number to the number of tags

One more option is to use FIND_IN_SET if there are limited values. For example,

SELECT * FROM (
SELECT u.*, GROUP_CONCAT(ut.tagid) as tags 
FROM users as u 
LEFT JOIN usertag as ut ON u.id = ut.userid 
GROUP BY u.id
) T
WHERE FIND_IN_SET('10',tags) > 0 AND FIND_IN_SET('20',tags) > 0