so i have 2 tables
table1
id username category
1 nick 1, 2
table2
id category
1 friend
2 enemy
3 neutral
now i want to print a list of just the categories with the id that does NOT appear in the table1 category list of coma separated values. for example in this case 'neutral'. Would appreciate the help i'm out of ideeas.
SELECT b.*
FROM table2 b
LEFT JOIN table1 a
ON FIND_IN_SET(b.ID, a.category)
WHERE a.category IS NULL
Consider normalizing your table properly. Saving comma separated value in a single column is a bad idea. Problems will arise soon if you have larger database. Here's my proposed Schema:
Table1 - UserList
Table2 - CategoryList
Table3 - User_Category