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Select multi value field

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MiaF
Starting Member

13 Posts

Posted - 2007-03-09 : 14:13:00

I don't know how to title my question. What I want to do is the following:

I have two tables

Customer:
ID Name
1 John
2 Mary

Purchase:
ID Customer Item
1 1 book
2 2 shoes
3 1 pencil

Is there a query I can write to get a result like this:
Customer Purchase
John book pencil
Mary shoes

Thanks ahead for any idea.

snSQL
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1837 Posts

Posted - 2007-03-09 : 16:36:24

There is a T-SQL solution here
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=53293
and if you want to get into CLR programming (2005 only) then there is a CLR user-defined concatenate aggregate function here
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms254508.aspx

mahesh_bote
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

298 Posts

Posted - 2007-03-10 : 05:23:19

try this

Declare @strValue VarChar(1000)
Select Id, @StrValue = Case When @strValue Is Null Then Item Else @strValue + ', ' + Item End From <Ur Table>
Group By Id
Select Id, @strValue As Item

U can use COALESCE function also to do so.

let me know,

Mahesh

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