/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Written a while ago. I think it finds hosts called "'host1' and 'host2'" * and pulls the individual hosts out of the pair so that they can be * installed into the table as separate hosts ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- */ select ho.hostid, ho.host, n1.hostid, n1.host, n1.host1, n2.hostid, n2.host, n2.host2 from hosts ho left join (select hostid, host, left(host,instr(host,' and ')-1) as host1 from hosts where host like '% and %') as n1 on n1.host1 = ho.host left join (select hostid, host, substring(host,instr(host,' and ')+5) as host2 from hosts where host like '% and %') as n2 on n2.host2 = ho.host where n1.host1 is not null or n2.host2 is not null ;