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Grouping with strings

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sqlfan2

26 Posts

Posted - 2007-10-31 : 14:11:05

Is there a way that I can group records but combine strings from a column in a concatenation (perhaps with a sperator):

This works:
select PairID, count(Name)
from OJ
group by PairID
order by PairID;

But I want something like this:
select PairID, concat(Name,",")
from OJ
group by PairID
order by PairID;

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khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2007-10-31 : 21:31:42

write a UDF to do that. see http://sqlblog.com/blogs/adam_machanic/archive/2006/07/12/rowset-string-concatenation-which-method-is-best.aspx

KH
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sqlfan2

26 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-01 : 00:03:15

That was really helpful - thanks - gave me all the info I needed to solve the problem.

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madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-01 : 02:28:26

http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=81254

Madhivanan

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sqlfan2

26 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-01 : 11:11:50

Great link/resource - thanks.

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