If you were using the linkages such that docs:keywords and docs:authors are both N:M you could use a query like the following to get one row per docs instance: ``` select docs.docid, docs.title, ( select group_concat(name, '; ') from ( select name from docauthors, authors where docauthors.docid == docs.docid and docauthors.authorid == authors.authorid order by name ) ) as authors, ( select group_concat(keyword, '; ') from ( select keyword from dockeywords, keywords where dockeywords.docid == docs.docid and dockeywords.keywordid == keywords.keywordid order by keyword ) ) as keywords from docs order by docid desc limit 5 ; ``` with all the applicable authors and keywords as single semi-colon separated lists ...