imagine 2 tables (rather stupid example, but for the sake of simplicity, here you go) words word_id letters letter word_id how can i select all words while selecting all letters that belong to a word and concatenating them to said word? it is important that the letters are returned in the order they appear in the table, as the letter may be mixed into other words, but the order is correct. |word_id| |word_id|letter| +-------+ +-------+------+ | 1| | 1| H| | 2| | 2| B| | 2| Y| | 1| I| | 2| E| should return |word_id|word| +-------+----+ | 1| HI| | 2| BYE| any way to accomplish this in pure SQL?