How to use GROUP BY to concatenate strings in SQL Server?

Question

How do I get:

id       Name       Value
1          A          4
1          B          8
2          C          9

to

id               


        

Answer 1

If it is SQL Server 2017 or SQL Server Vnext, SQL Azure you can use string_agg as below:

select id, string_agg(concat(name, ':', [value]), ', ')
from #YourTable 
group by id