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

This kind of question is asked here very often, and the solution is going to depend a lot on the underlying requirements:

https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=sql+pivot

and

https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=sql+concatenate

Typically, there is no SQL-only way to do this without either dynamic sql, a user-defined function, or a cursor.