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one Rows in two Line in Result one line in one row

tutter

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May 29, 2020 at 5:44 am

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Hello,
i have often the Problem that i must the information from 2 line (1 row) i need in 1 line
Example:
Select car,model,engine,details from cars
( |= stands for row)
Honda| Civic| 1.6| deluxe
Honda| Civic| 1.6| basic
VW| Golf| 1.5| basic
VW| Golf| 1.5| extra
Dodge| Viper| 8.4| performance
Dodge| Viper| 8.4| last_edition

Result: Row 4 but only 1 line
Honda| Civic| 1.6| deluxe, basic
VW| Golf| 1.5| basic, extra
Dodge| Viper| 8.4| performance, last_edition
Thanks for helping

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Ken McKelvey SSCoach Points: 18765 More actions · Answer 1

Using FOR XML PATH with .value is the normal approach for this. See just before 'Using Common Language Runtime' here:

https://www.red-gate.com/simple-talk/sql/t-sql-programming/concatenating-row-values-in-transact-sql/

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 246686 More actions · Answer 2

If you would like help creating a solution in code, please provide your data in consumable format (ie, one which can be cut & pasted into SSMS).

If you haven't even tried to resolve your issue, please don't expect the hard-working volunteers here to waste their time providing links to answers which you could easily have found yourself.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003853 More actions · Answer 3

Since you're new, let me explain what Phil means by directing you to the first link in my signature line below. It helps others help you both a lot better and a lot more quickly.

Here's another way to provide such readily consumable data (I'm using what you posted as the example).

--===== If the test table already exists, drop it to make reruns in SSMS easier.
     -- This is NOT a part of the solution to the provlem. This is how to post test data for the problem.
   DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #TestTable
;
--===== Create and populate the test table on-the-fly.
 SELECT *
   INTO #TestTable
   FROM (VALUES
         ('Honda','Civic','1.6','deluxe')
        ,('Honda','Civic','1.6','basic')
        ,('VW','Golf','1.5','basic')
        ,('VW','Golf','1.5','extra')
        ,('Dodge','Viper','8.4','performance')
        ,('Dodge','Viper','8.4','last_edition')
        )v(car,model,engine,details)
;
GO

Once that's done and because you're using SQL Server 2017, we no longer need the XML trick to do this. Instead, we can use the new STRING_AGG() function as follows:

 SELECT  car,model,engine
        ,details = STRING_AGG(details,', ' ) WITHIN GROUP (ORDER BY details)
   FROM #TestTable
  GROUP BY car,model,engine
  ORDER BY car,model,engine
;

... and that produces the following results...

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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