CLR Aggregate to Concatenate delimited strings

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CLR Aggregate to Concatenate delimited strings

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gvarol

Posted Friday, January 14, 2011 2:12 PM

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Posted Thursday, January 27, 2011 7:35 AM

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wouldn't

declare @result varchar(max);
select @result = coalesce(@result + ',' + value,value) from @codes;
select @result;

be a lot simpler?

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Posted Tuesday, May 17, 2011 7:43 PM

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david.wright-948385 (1/27/2011)

wouldn't

declare @result varchar(max);
select @result = coalesce(@result + ',' + value,value) from @codes;
select @result;

be a lot simpler?

I agree your T-SQL solution is simpler than the example code used to demonstrate how the CLR function works, however your T-SQL solution does not bring anything to GROUP BY queries where groups are being processed because COALESCE is not an aggregate function like the CLR function.

Here is a project containing several CLR User-Defined Aggregate functions that offer similar functionality to the function in the article but that will greatly outperform the function in the article for large datasets:

http://groupconcat.codeplex.com

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