Put Values of Column Together In 1 String. Help

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Put Values of Column Together In 1 String. Help

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besadmin
Posting Yak Master

116 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-07 : 16:15:18

Hey Friends, hopefully this isn't too silly of a question. We are trying to take a column of values and put them together in a string.
So the Table might look like this:


Column 1

AAA

BBB

CCC

DDD

So we want a query that can give us a result from that table of:

'AAA, BBB, CCC, DDD'

All together in 1 string separated by a comma or something.

Thanks a ton for any replys! Much Appreciated.

- S

sunitabeck
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

5155 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-07 : 19:16:52

[code]SELECT STUFF((
SELECT
','+Column1 AS [text()]
FROM
YourTable
FOR XML PATH('')),1,1,'');[/code]

besadmin
Posting Yak Master

116 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-08 : 11:00:33

sunitabeck, thanks a ton for the reply. It worked flawlessly.

I have never seen the STUFF keyword, pretty cool.

We also got it working using COLESCE:


DECLARE @listStr VARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT @listStr = COALESCE(@listStr+', ' ,'') + [File_Name]
FROM TableName
SELECT @listStr

Just to let everyone know another way too i suppose.

Thanks again for your response. Perfect! and greatly appreciated.

Later Friends!

- S

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