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calvinkwoo3000
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98 Posts

Posted - 2014-08-07 : 02:27:25

i want to concat data from few column to 2 column.

My database as below:

id name email
1 name1 name1@email.com
1 name2 name2@email.com
2 name21 name21@email.com
2 name22 name22@email.com

Output:
id name email
1 name1,name2 name1@email.com,name2@email.com
2 name21,name22 name21@email.com,name22@email.com

do anyone have any advise?

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2014-08-07 : 02:39:09

[code]DECLARE @Sample TABLE
(
id INT NOT NULL,
name VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL,
email VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL
);

INSERT @Sample
(
id,
name,
email
)
VALUES (1, 'name1', 'name1@email.com'),
(1, 'name2', 'name2@email.com'),
(2, 'name21', 'name21@email.com'),
(2, 'name22', 'name22@email.com');

-- SwePeso
SELECT i.id,
STUFF(n.data.value('.', 'VARCHAR(MAX)'), 1, 1, '') AS name,
STUFF(e.data.value('.', 'VARCHAR(MAX)'), 1, 1, '') AS email
FROM (
SELECT id
FROM @Sample
GROUP BY id
) AS i
CROSS APPLY (
SELECT ',' + x.name
FROM @Sample AS x
WHERE x.id =i.id
ORDER BY x.name
FOR XML PATH(''),
TYPE
) AS n(data)
CROSS APPLY (
SELECT ',' + x.email
FROM @Sample AS x
WHERE x.id =i.id
ORDER BY x.name
FOR XML PATH(''),
TYPE
) AS e(data);[/code]

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