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Group by and Concatenate just one field?

  • February 22, 2011 at 4:44 am

    #388910

    Hi,

    I have a result set containing several fields, one of which 'Comment' is a varchar field. I would like to group by all the other fields and concatenate all the 'comment' values into just one string. Can anyone advise how I might do this? - So rather than aggregating the field, I just want the values concatenating to each other (with possible the addition of a 'space' delimiter).

    I've not posted any DDL code, as thought the answer could possible be given in principle.

    Any help greatly appreciated.

    Regards - Jason

  • February 22, 2011 at 11:59 am

    #1290022

    Search this site for "concatenate FOR XML PATH".


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  • February 23, 2011 at 12:26 am

    #1290245

    Thanks for the pointer, Lutz. I've searched SSC as suggested, and it seems that the XML functionality is only available in SS2005 and later. Unfortunately, although I'm using 2008 SS app, the server itself is 2000 so I'm limited to 2000 syntax.

    Regards - Jason

  • February 27, 2011 at 5:12 pm

    #1292093

    jason-772533 (2/23/2011)

    Thanks for the pointer, Lutz. I've searched SSC as suggested, and it seems that the XML functionality is only available in SS2005 and later. Unfortunately, although I'm using 2008 SS app, the server itself is 2000 so I'm limited to 2000 syntax.

    Regards - Jason

    Then the following article will help, a lot!

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Test+Data/61572/

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  • February 28, 2011 at 2:31 am

    #1292195

    Thanks Jeff - really interesting article. I kind of agree with you in the 1st paragraph - I'd rather not be doing it, but someone wants the 'comments' concatenated rather than 'on seperate rows'. If only people would take the data in the way it was intended !

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