Comments on: SQL SERVER – Create a Comma Delimited List Using SELECT Clause From Table Column

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:03:49 +0000

Since the column datatype is a VARCHAR type and you have combination of values, please use like operator.
Select * from table where RoleID like ‘%3%’

By: Adday Michel

Adday Michel — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:21:01 +0000

please try below query

use AdventureWorks
Go
Delcare @listStr VARCHAR(MAX)
select @listStr =COALESCE(@listStr+’,’ ,”) + ProductData.Name
from(select distinct Name from Production.Product) as ProductData
SELECT @listStr
Go

By: kipetcoff

kipetcoff — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:40:57 +0000

perfect!

By: ROMY

ROMY — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:17:41 +0000

HOW TO USE SELECT STATEMENTS INSTEAD OF ARGUMENTS IN SPLIT COMMA FUNCTION incase of ms sql 2008 server?it returns value for the below query

select LISTMEMBER from SysAdmin.fnSplitComma (’2,3,5′)

like LISTMEMBER
2
3
5
but how to get the value when we specifies a column in table which has data in the format 2,3,4 in first row,2,5 in second row.BELOW select statement wont work for that.
SELECT LISTMEMBER FROM SysAdmin.fnSplitComma(SELECT IMPLanguages FROM CFI.InstructionalMediaPackage WHERE IMPLanguages=p.pkLanguageID) AS
‘nameList’
FROM SysAdmin.M_Lang AS p

By: SShirsat

SShirsat — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:46:21 +0000

Got solution? I am also having same problem…

By: SShirsat

SShirsat — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:44:30 +0000

@Mazharkhan

Did you find your answer..i have same problem..please revert

By: vyshu

vyshu — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:32:20 +0000

hi
i want to separate the values given in a single row separeted by comma into multiple row..

for eg
Input : ab,bc,cd,de

output:
ab
bc
cd
de

By: vyshu

vyshu — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:30:32 +0000

hi
did u get this query.

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:47:19 +0000

Hi Pinal Dave,

I have referenced this code many times. I appreciate you maintaining this site. Nicely done!

-Steve

By: Prashant

Prashant — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:50:58 +0000

Hi pinaldave,

The code is help me a lot in one of my project.
I really appreciate.

Thanks & Regards,
Prashant Kauthekar

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:36:56 +0000

Can someone please help me? I have a column of string data collected from a survey. e.g. (Yes; No; Maybe; Don’t know), assigned to a number of respondents. I want to create a list in a seperate COLUMN (retaining a Response heading) for each respondent. i.e.

Respondent Response
A Yes
A No
A Yes
B Maybe
B No
B Yes

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:53:29 +0000

In the toolbar Goto Query–>Query options–>Results–Text . Select output format as comma delimited

Now set the result mode to text and run the query

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 03:29:30 +0000

I want help with sql statment. when I select the data I get is like this

1 2232 eq233 1000 12-12-2011 11:11 39 9.2 text text

I want this output to have comma instead of space like

1, 2232, eq233, 1000, 12-12-2011 11:11, 39, 9.2, text text,

can some please help.

By: kishor singh

kishor singh — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:29:10 +0000

–create or replace function getAuthor(i_deptNo VARCHAR)
– return VARCHAR(4000)
– is
– cursor c_emp is
– select first_Name from employee where id = i_deptNo;
– v_out VARCHAR2(4000);
– begin
– for r_emp in c_emp loop
– if v_out is null then
– v_out:=r_emp.first_Name;
– else
– v_out:=v_out||’, ‘||r_emp.first_Name;
– end if;
– end loop;
– return v_out;
– end

Try it !!!

Kishor singh

By: falguni

falguni — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 11:31:01 +0000

Hi Pinal,
I have taken one variable named @Period_List As varchar(max). I have set its vale as
@Period_List = ‘column1 int, column2 int, column 3′
Now i am trying to create table using this variable,
Like,
CREATE Table #TempTable (@Period_List)
But it gives error. can you please tell me another way or solution for this problem.

By: anye

anye — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:50:17 +0000

This script doesn’t work if there are any null values in the set of rows being composited.

Try this instead:

DECLARE @List VARCHAR(5000)
SELECT @List = COALESCE(@List + ‘, ‘ + MyField, MyField)
FROM MyTable
select @List as MyDisplayName

(from http://www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs/articletype/articleview/articleid/289/creating-comma-separated-list-in-sql.aspx)

Only slightly different but more robust

By: Butt

Butt — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:31:01 +0000

Pinal,
How can I use this comma separated list in a query? like where value IN ( Select commaSeparatedList from MyTable)

By: HV

HV — Mon, 23 May 2011 21:26:06 +0000

If I want this view would COALESCE work? How else can I get this please?

Data – All in one table
Col1 Col2
—— ———-
USA Denver
USA Seattle
USA Chicago
Canada Vancouver
Canada Calgary

Result –

Col1 Col2
—– ———–
USA Denver, Seattle, Chicago
Canada Vancouver, Calgary

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:22:55 +0000

Search for rowset concatenation in this site

By: Hugo

Hugo — Mon, 09 May 2011 09:58:13 +0000

Hi!

I have a query like this:

InvoiceNum Depart.
————— ————–
11000 400
11000 404
15000 572

And I need:

InvoiceNum Depart.
————— ————–
11000 400, 404
15000 572

Is it possible? Thanks!!!!

By: Udayaa

Udayaa — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:42:09 +0000

Hi Pinal,

Can I use COALESCE in update statement ?

when I am trying to update the rows to temp table the concatenation doesn’t happen.
It picks only the first value
Please help

Create Table #TempData
(
Pe_Logn Varchar(10), Team Varchar(8000)
)

Insert Into #TempData
Select Distinct(PE_DEPT), NULL from iP_Person

/* Select *from #TempDate */
Pe_Logn Team
Finance NULL
HR NULL
IT NULL

/* Getting the people for each department */
Update #TempData
Set Team = COALESCE(IsNull(TEAM, ”) + ‘,’,”) + Pe.Pe_Logn from iP_Person Pe
Where Pe.Pe_Dept = #TempData.Pe_Logn

/* Select *from #TempData */
Pe_Logn Team
Finance ,ABC
HR ,DEF
IT ,XYZ

Actual output should have been
Pe_Logn Team
Finance ,ABC, 123, !@#
HR ,DEF, 234, @#$
IT ,XYZ, 345, #$%

Regards,
Uday

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:19:02 +0000

Refer this
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2008/09/11/splitting-delimited-data-to-columns-set-based-approach.aspx

By: nidhi

nidhi — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:18:26 +0000

I have two tables (please note that column headers are dynamic – not necessarily 3 or 4 columns..but the same numbr of records will be present in the column data):

Table 1:

SortSeqID ColumnHeader
1 ‘ColA,ColB,ColC’
2 ‘ColA,ColB,ColC,ColD’
3 ‘ColA,ColC,ColD’

Table 2:
SortSeqID ColumnData
1 ‘1,2,3’
2 ’11,13,243,5’
3 ‘1,5,6’

Need output like:
SortSeqID ColA ColB ColC ColD
1 1 2 3
2 11 13 243 5
3 1 5 6

By: Amrish

Amrish — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 07:17:30 +0000

Hi Pinal,
I got the solution for Select Distinct

but i don’t know about SQL Server 2005 but it is working in SQL Server 2008

USE AdventureWorks
GO
DECLARE @listStr XML
set @listStr=(SELECT DISTINCT COALESCE( Name,”)+’,’
FROM Production.Product
for XML Path(”))

SELECT SUBSTRING(CAST (@ listStr AS VARCHAR) , 1, LEN(CAST (@ listStr AS VARCHAR))-1)
GO

By: Amrish

Amrish — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:55:27 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I want this in Select distinct query result.

It is not working in case of distinct

I have tried like following and i didn’t get desired result

USE AdventureWorks
GO
DECLARE @listStr VARCHAR(MAX)
SELECT DISTINCT @listStr = COALESCE(@listStr+’,’ ,”) + Name
FROM Production.Product
SELECT @listStr
GO

Plz give some solution