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Concatenate Rows

This solution does not require a variable and it also allows you to do joins against other tables within one statement. The substring function removes the leading comma. Download the presidents table here. SELECT ColumnList = SUBSTRING( (SELECT ‘,’ + ISNULL(President,”) FROM dbo.Presidents FOR XML PATH(”)) ,2,8000) Using a common table expression (CTE) you can [...]