• There is no need to resort to looping for this. You can instead use STUFF.

    Thanks Mark for the ddl and sample data.

    declare @a table (Linenumber int, ErrorText varchar(30),FileID int)

    insert into @a values

    (1, 'a', 10),

    (1, 'b', 10),

    (2, 'a', 11),

    (2, 'b', 11),

    (2, 'c', 11),

    (3, 'c', 12),

    (3, 'd', 12)

    select Linenumber,

    STUFF((select ',' + ErrorText

    from @a a2

    where a1.Linenumber = a2.Linenumber

    order by a2.ErrorText

    for xml path('')), 1, 1, '') as ErrorTexts

    , FileID

    from @a a1

    group by Linenumber, FileID

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