How to create a SQL Server function to “join” multiple rows from a subquery into a single delimited field? [duplicate]

Answer 1

If you're running SQL Server 2005, you can write a custom CLR aggregate function to handle this.

C# version:

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.Data.SqlTypes;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Server;
[Serializable]
[Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlUserDefinedAggregate(Format.UserDefined,MaxByteSize=8000)]
public class CSV:IBinarySerialize
{
    private StringBuilder Result;
    public void Init() {
        this.Result = new StringBuilder();
    }

    public void Accumulate(SqlString Value) {
        if (Value.IsNull) return;
        this.Result.Append(Value.Value).Append(",");
    }
    public void Merge(CSV Group) {
        this.Result.Append(Group.Result);
    }
    public SqlString Terminate() {
        return new SqlString(this.Result.ToString());
    }
    public void Read(System.IO.BinaryReader r) {
        this.Result = new StringBuilder(r.ReadString());
    }
    public void Write(System.IO.BinaryWriter w) {
        w.Write(this.Result.ToString());
    }
}