What is the TSQL syntax to format my output so that the column values appear as a string, seperated by commas.
Example, my table CARS has the following:
CarID CarName
----------------
1 Porsche
2 Mercedes
3 Ferrari
How do I get the car names as : Porsche, Mercedes, Ferrari
SELECT LEFT(Car, LEN(Car) - 1)
FROM (
SELECT Car + ', '
FROM Cars
FOR XML PATH ('')
) c (Car)
You can do a shortcut using coalesce to concatenate a series of strings from a record in a table, for example.
declare @aa varchar (200)
set @aa = ''
select @aa =
case when @aa = ''
then CarName
else @aa + coalesce(',' + CarName, '')
end
from Cars
print @aa
DECLARE @CarList nvarchar(max);
SET @CarList = N'';
SELECT @CarList+=CarName+N','
FROM dbo.CARS;
SELECT LEFT(@CarList,LEN(@CarList)-1);
Thanks are due to whoever on SO showed me the use of accumulating data during a query.