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stephe40
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2006-08-18 : 10:58:32
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| I sure I am not the first person to ask this, for that I apologize, but I can not find anything in the search.Given the following data:key data1 A1 B1 C2 A2 CWhat is the best way to get the data back like this:key data1 A, B, C2 A, CAll the ideas I am coming up with require hard coding the key id's somewhere.- Eric |
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stephe40
Posting Yak Master
218 Posts |
Posted - 2006-08-18 : 11:01:03
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| I just realized I could use a UDF that given an ID would return the right string of stuff. Is there a built in way?- Eric |
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nr
SQLTeam MVY
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Posted - 2006-08-18 : 11:31:56
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| UDF is the simplest - could probably use a CTE in v2005.the UDF would bedeclare @s varchar(1000)select @s = coalesce(@s + ',',data)from tblwhere key = @key==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.DTS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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madhivanan
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Aggregate text into one column