September 24, 2012 at 3:02 am
Hi,
Lets say, I have a table with Gender,Name and Age.
Gender Name Age
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Male John 52
Female Joe 33
Male Jim 42
I want the output to be like;
Male John 52 Jim 42
Female Joe 33
can anybody help me this on SQL SERVER 2003...??
September 24, 2012 at 3:56 am
Like this:
DECLARE @Names TABLE
(Gender VARCHAR(6), Name VARCHAR(6), Age INT)
INSERT INTO @Names
SELECT 'Male','John', 52
UNION ALL SELECT 'Female','Joe', 33
UNION ALL SELECT 'Male','Jim',42
SELECT Gender, Names=
STUFF((
SELECT ' ' + Name + ' ' + CAST(Age AS VARCHAR)
FROM @Names b
WHERE a.Gender = b.Gender
FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'VARCHAR(MAX)')
,1, 1, '')
FROM @Names a
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September 24, 2012 at 4:26 am
My way is very similare to Dwain's way, but I also added the distinct key word so there will be only 2 rows. I also didn't use the stuff function:
DECLARE @Tbl TABLE (Gender char(6), Name varchar(20), Age tinyint)
INSERT INTO @Tbl (Gender, Name, Age)
SELECT 'Male', 'John', 52
UNION ALL
SELECT 'Female', 'Joe', 33
UNION ALL
SELECT 'Male', 'Jim', 42
select distinct Gender,
cast((select Name + ' ' + cast(Age as char(2)) + ' ' FROM @Tbl t1 where t1.Gender = t2.Gender for xml path('')) as varchar(max)) as Det
from @Tbl t2
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