Sean Lange (6/26/2013)

---

kapil_kk (6/26/2013)

---

you can do the same thing as Sean did using SUBSTRING also:

SELECT id,

SUBSTRING((SELECT ', ' + Term

FROM Something s2

WHERE s1.id = s2.id

and s2.Type = 'Subject'

ORDER BY s2.Term

FOR XML PATH('')), 2, 1000) as Result

FROM Something s1

where Type = 'Subject'

GROUP BY id

The problem here is that you have to choose an arbitrary length. In your case it was 1000 which is plenty to cover the sample data. The issue can be demonstrated by changing the length to something shorter than the output you can see what happens.

Let's change the length to 10 instead 1000.

SELECT id,

Substring((SELECT ', ' + Term

FROM Something s2

WHERE s1.id = s2.id

AND s2.Type = 'Subject'

ORDER BY s2.Term

FOR XML PATH('')), 2, 10) AS Result

FROM Something s1

WHERE Type = 'Subject'

GROUP BY id