Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/21/05 00:33

(dnsstaiger@gmx.net) writes:
> Now my problem: I would like to have the following output:
>
> LocationID | Names
> 1 Specialist 1, Specialist 2
> 2 Specialist 3, Specialist 4
> 3 Specialist 1
> 4 Specialist 4
>
> ...which is grouping by LocationID and concatenating the specialist
> names.
> Any idea on how to do this?

This is one of the rare cases where you need to set up a cursor and
iterate. In SQL 2000 there is no defined way to do this. (There is
a shortcut, but it relies on undefined behaviour, so I don't recommend it.)

In SQL 2005, currently in beta, the story is different. There you
actually have a way to this in a set-based statement, although the
syntax is somewhat bewildering. (It's actually a by-product, of all
the XML stuff they thrown in.)


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