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    1. COI agree Leigh - it seemed like it was a good idea to store comma separated values that can be brought into JavaScript as strings or arrays, and used as temporary memory for the javascript to populate HTML drop lists etc. That is why I did it to begin with. For that purpose, it has worked very well, but now that I want to compare and discriminate with those values, I'm left importing the table to PHP to sort. Which brings me to my next question: Is it OK, or common procedure to loop through thousands of records with PHP? Is that too much a burden on the system? Will that slow it down too much?
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    2. COThanks Jim - That link links to another and another question - yet it does look like it eventually gets down to some solution. yet it is looking to me like the answer to this question is "NO" so far. Maybe better just to get a hard answer to this question here, instead of linking people off to other questions and links. - So far I'm seeing that "NO" MySQL can not do this alone. And you are either left looping thorough the table results with PHP OR Having the MySQL creating new tables that then can be sorted.
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    3. COI see Daryl - is that practical for thousands of records? Is it something that is typically done with thousands of records?
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