Convert multiple rows into one with comma as separator [duplicate]

Answer 1

building on mwigdahls answer. if you also need to do grouping here is how to get it to look like

group, csv
'group1', 'paul, john'
'group2', 'mary'

    --drop table #user
create table #user (groupName varchar(25), username varchar(25))

insert into #user (groupname, username) values ('apostles', 'Paul')
insert into #user (groupname, username) values ('apostles', 'John')
insert into #user (groupname, username) values ('family','Mary')


select
    g1.groupname
    , stuff((
        select ', ' + g.username
        from #user g        
        where g.groupName = g1.groupname        
        order by g.username
        for xml path('')
    ),1,2,'') as name_csv
from #user g1
group by g1.groupname

Answer 2

This should work for you. Tested all the way back to SQL 2000.

create table #user (username varchar(25))

insert into #user (username) values ('Paul')
insert into #user (username) values ('John')
insert into #user (username) values ('Mary')

declare @tmp varchar(250)
SET @tmp = ''
select @tmp = @tmp + username + ', ' from #user

select SUBSTRING(@tmp, 0, LEN(@tmp))

Answer 3

You can use this query to do the above task:

DECLARE @test NVARCHAR(max)  
SELECT @test = COALESCE(@test + ',', '') + field2 FROM #test
SELECT field2 = @test 

For detail and step by step explanation visit the following link http://oops-solution.blogspot.com/2011/11/sql-server-convert-table-column-data.html

Answer 4

If you're executing this through PHP, what about this?

$hQuery = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users");
while($hRow = mysql_fetch_array($hQuery)) {
    $hOut .= $hRow['username'] . ", ";
}
$hOut = substr($hOut, 0, strlen($hOut) - 1);
echo $hOut;

Answer 5

A clean and flexible solution in MS SQL Server 2005/2008 is to create a CLR Agregate function.

You'll find quite a few articles (with code) on google.

It looks like this article walks you through the whole process using C#.

Answer 6

you can use stuff() to convert rows as comma separated values

select
EmployeeID,
stuff((
  SELECT ',' + FPProjectMaster.GroupName 
      FROM     FPProjectInfo AS t INNER JOIN
              FPProjectMaster ON t.ProjectID = FPProjectMaster.ProjectID
      WHERE  (t.EmployeeID = FPProjectInfo.EmployeeID)
              And t.STatusID = 1
              ORDER BY t.ProjectID
       for xml path('')
       ),1,1,'') as name_csv
from FPProjectInfo
group by EmployeeID;

Thanks @AlexKuznetsov for the reference to get this answer.