I use following script very often and I realized that I have never shared this script on this blog before. Creating Comma Separated Values (CSV) from Table Column is a very common task, and we all do this many times a day. Let us see the example that I use frequently and its output.
USE AdventureWorks
GO
-- Check Table Column
SELECT Name
FROM HumanResources.Shift
GO
-- Get CSV values
SELECT SUBSTRING(
(SELECT ',' + s.Name
FROM HumanResources.Shift s
ORDER BY s.Name
FOR XML PATH('')),2,200000) AS CSV
GO
I consider XML as the best solution in terms of code and performance. Further, as I totally prefer this option, I am not even including the linka to my other articles, where I have described other options.
Do you use any other method to resolve this issue? Can you find any significant difference in performance between these options? Please leave your comment here.
Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)
Could you explain (or point me to a good resource) “FOR XML PATH”?
I was actually working on a similar query today and wanted to order the select for my CSV query, but got an error indicating you can’t use an ORDER BY clause in a derived table and suggesting the use of FOR XML PATH.
Thanks!
Ryan
You can use Order by clause. However you need to use Top 100 Percent in the SELECT clause
I have always wondered why they don’t put a Concatenate function into SQL Server.
Although the CTE approach might be the most “SQL” method of concatenation, I personally prefer the CLR approach. Here is a pretty good example of this:
h ttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms254508%28VS.80%29.aspx
I also believe that this is a good article discussing the many many ways that people try to concatenate records:
h ttp://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/concatenating-row-values-in-transact-sql/
The result is perfect but find a bit complicated…what is 2,200000 has to do in this????
is it the RANGE????
Thanks,
Nitin Sharma
2 is used to omit the leading comma, 200000 is just a number that would be maximum length of the resulted string. You can use any number in place of 200000
DECLARE @a AS VARCHAR(4000)
SET @a =”
SELECT @a = @a + NAME + ‘,’
FROM HumanResources.Shift
SELECT @a
Dinesh, You will end up with extra Comma..
I’ve used a managed function with a StringBuilder – it results in a better performance.
@Ryan
Pinal has an article here on creating an XML file with FOR XML PATH.
Pinal also has an article on this topic, pointing to an external source: http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/08/17/sql-server-xml-split-a-delimited-string-generate-a-delimited-string/
Hi Nitin,
The 2,200000 is part of the SUBSTRING Function arguments, it says grab the characters starting from 2nd position to position 200000
O i c…. i guessed it right…
Thanks @ ramdas.
We can use stuff fn instead of substring, just to keep the code clean.
Also, it will be helpful if we want to handle data larger than 200000
select stuff(query using XML path),1,1,”) AS csv
Yes. This is the more reliable method and there is no need to worry about actual length of the output
The 2, 200000 is ugly as previously pointed out.
Code that imposes hard coded restrictions like this should not be used as suggested best practices or as teaching statements.
DECLARE @Csv varchar(Max)
SELECT @Csv= COALESCE(@Csv + ‘, ‘, ”) +
CAST(s.Name AS varchar(50))
FROM HumanResources.Shift s
ORDER BY s.Name
SELECT @Csv
This will only concatenate all values regardless of group.
If you want to reset for each group, you need to use for xml approach with group by clause
I like your solution but I find that it in many ways is a one off solution and unfortionately will not work if you have multiple columns. Let say you had two tables
Table A
->a_id
Table B
->b_id
->name
->a_id
And you wanted the following results
[a_id],[name,name,name,name]
If you want to achieve multiple columns you need to create a User Defined Aggregate (see below) so that all you need to do is write a simple query like the one below
Select a_id, toCSV(name)
FROM A
INNER JOIN B on b.a_id = A.a_id
[Serializable]
[SqlUserDefinedAggregate(
Format.UserDefined, //use clr serialization to serialize the intermediate result
IsInvariantToNulls = true, //optimizer property
IsInvariantToDuplicates = false, //optimizer property
IsInvariantToOrder = false, //optimizer property
MaxByteSize = 8000) //maximum size in bytes of persisted value
]
public class toCSV : IBinarySerialize
{
///
/// The variable that holds the intermediate result of the concatenation
///
private StringBuilder intermediateResult;
///
/// Initialize the internal data structures
///
public void Init()
{
this.intermediateResult = new StringBuilder();
}
///
/// Accumulate the next value, not if the value is null
///
///
public void Accumulate(SqlString value)
{
if (value.IsNull)
{
return;
}
this.intermediateResult.Append(value.Value).Append(‘,’);
}
///
/// Merge the partially computed aggregate with this aggregate.
///
///
public void Merge(toCSV other)
{
this.intermediateResult.Append(other.intermediateResult);
}
///
/// Called at the end of aggregation, to return the results of the aggregation.
///
///
public SqlString Terminate()
{
string output = string.Empty;
//delete the trailing comma, if any
if (this.intermediateResult != null
&& this.intermediateResult.Length > 0)
{
output = this.intermediateResult.ToString(0, this.intermediateResult.Length – 1);
}
return new SqlString(output);
}
public void Read(BinaryReader r)
{
intermediateResult = new StringBuilder(r.ReadString());
}
public void Write(BinaryWriter w)
{
w.Write(this.intermediateResult.ToString());
}
}
Hi Bret,
I was looking for the exact solution. Your toCSV function helped me achieve a solution that I was looking for.
Thanks,
Jitendra
hi
I have a table ‘company’ and it have a column ‘keywords’ where the values are stored like
KEYWORDS
Row1 ac, bg, hkl, jh, od
Row2 gh,jd,kl,ks
Now what i need is that i want to create a new table name as keywords and it store data like
KEYWORDS
Row1 ac
Row2 bg
Row3 hkl
Row4 jh
…………………………
……………………..
IS it possible to do that??
please help
Thanks and regards.
Pinal has a UDF that will do it: http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/05/06/sql-server-udf-function-to-convert-list-to-table/
Brad Schulz has a detailed article o doing this with FOR XML: http://bradsruminations.blogspot.com/2009/10/un-making-list-or-shredding-of-evidence.html
Hi,
The same thing can be performed using below function also:
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[Split](@List VARCHAR(6000), @SplitOn VARCHAR(5))
RETURNS @RtnValue TABLE([Value] VARCHAR(100))
AS
BEGIN
WITH s(start) AS
(
SELECT DISTINCT CHARINDEX(‘,’,',’+@List+’,',p)
FROM
(SELECT number p FROM master..spt_values WHERE type=’p’ and numbers.start)-start-1)
FROM s WHERE start<len(@List)+2
)
INSERT INTO @RtnValue (Value)
SELECT chunk FROM chunks
RETURN
END
—Use the function Split with your table as below:
SELECT fSplit.Value AS Result
FROM CROSS APPLY Split(,’,') fSplit
Kind Regards,
Pinal Dave
Dude this code is incorrect.
The above would require correction that could execute perfectly
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The script you’ve previously described at http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/05/06/sql-server-udf-function-to-convert-list-to-table/
works very well so my problem is fixed.
To quibble, the other script you’ve given in-thread here : function split – fails on my SQL Server 2005.
It complains about – Incorrect syntax near ‘‘’ on line 7 and 9.
Still, the other one works fine so STILL thanks.
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Hi,
I have a table like,
ID | Value
—- ——–
1000 1
1000 2
1000 3
1001 2
1001 3
1001 4
1001 5
I want the output like this
1000 | 1,2,3
1001 | 2.3.4.5
But when i use the below query,
SELECT ID,(STUFF(select ‘, ‘+value from tblA group by value FOR XML PATH(”)),1,2,”) FROM tblA
I am getting the output like shown below
1000 | 1,2,3,4,5
1001 | 1,2,3,4,5
Which is wrong.. please help
Regards
Hi
Can i get the same result by using functions….
Hi Taher,
I found that you applied GROUP BY at wrong place.
To achieve result as expected you need to change query to:
DECLARE @tblA TABLE(ID INT, Value INT)
INSERT INTO @tblA VALUES(1000,1)
INSERT INTO @tblA VALUES(1000,2)
INSERT INTO @tblA VALUES(1000,3)
INSERT INTO @tblA VALUES(1001,2)
INSERT INTO @tblA VALUES(1001,3)
INSERT INTO @tblA VALUES(1001,4)
INSERT INTO @tblA VALUES(1001,5)
–SELECT * from @tblA
SELECT ID,
SUBSTRING(
(
select ‘ ,’+ CAST(value AS VARCHAR)
from @tblA b
WHERE a.ID = b.ID
FOR XML PATH(”)
)
,3,100)
FROM @tblA a
GROUP BY a.ID
Let me know if it helps you.
Thanks,
Tejas
SQLYoga.com
i am getting an error like incorrect sysntax near FOR XML path..
For XML is supported from version 2005 onwards
For version prior to 2005, you should use a function that concatenates data
Hi,
Thanks it works fine.
Thanks ,
vinutha
Hello Tejas,
Thank you very much for your reply. It solved my problem. I was doing group by inside because i wanted to club all similar records (main intention being not to get duplicate records). But now i figured that same thing can be achieved by using DISTINCT.
Thanks A lot !!!
Taher
consider i am having a employee table . iwant my result to be dispalyed like the following.
emp name reporting order
steve \steve
austin \steve\austin
andrew \steve\austin\andrew
bruce \steve\austin\andrew\bruce
thank you in advance.
Akhiesh
I got a little giddy when I tried this query on one of the databases I work on. I had used SQL functions to do this in the past… great post! Thanks for sharing.
How would you remove duplicate comma seperated value from below query (sai,sam,sai)
USE tempdb;
GO
–drop table t1
CREATE TABLE t1 (id INT, NAME VARCHAR(MAX));
INSERT t1 values (1,’Jamie’);
INSERT t1 values (1,’Joe’);
INSERT t1 values (1,’John’);
INSERT t1 values (2,’Sai’);
INSERT t1 values (2,’Sam’);
INSERT t1 values (2,’Sai’);
GO
select
id,
stuff((
select ‘,’ + t.[name]
from t1 t
where t.id = t1.id
order by t.[name]
for xml path(”)
),1,1,”) as name_csv
from t1
group by id
;
It should be
select
t.id,
stuff((
select distinct ‘,’ + t1.[name]
from t1
where t.id = t1.id
for xml path(”)
),1,1,”) as name_csv
from t1 as t
group by t.id
;
Hi,
Ur work is good will it is good for mysql
Suggest some better work for mysql
MySQL has a built-in function to do this
SELECT col,GROUP_CONCAT(some_col,’,') FROM your_table
GROUP BY col
Hi Pinal,
I’ve used the CTE method , Can you please tell me the performance of this approach..
create table t1
(
val varchar(100),
)
insert into t1 values (‘A’)
insert into t1 values (‘B’)
insert into t1 values (‘C’)
insert into t1 values (‘D’)
insert into t1 values (‘E’)
with CTE (id,val)
AS
(
select id,val from (select Row_number() over (order by val) as id, val from t1) e where id = 1
union all
select e1.id, CAST ( CTE.val + ‘,’ + e1.val As varchar(100)) As val from CTE
inner join (select Row_number() over (order by val) as id, val from t1 ) e1 on e1.id = CTE.id + 1
)
select top 1 val from CTE order by id desc
i am getting an error like Incorrect syntax near ‘XML’.wen i used tat
SELECT id,
SUBSTRING(
(
select ‘,’ + CAST(value AS VARCHAR)
from table1 b
WHERE a.id = b.id
FOR XML PATH(”)
)
,3,100)
FROM table1 a
GROUP BY a.ID
Hello Tejas,
i am getting an error like Incorrect syntax near ‘XML’.wen i used tat
SELECT id,
SUBSTRING(
(
select ‘,’ + CAST(value AS VARCHAR)
from table1 b
WHERE a.id = b.id
FOR XML PATH(“)
)
,3,100)
FROM table1 a
GROUP BY a.ID
Hi Naveen,
What is SQL SERVER you are using?
It should work on 2005 and above only.
XML DataType feature is available from SQL 2005 and above.
Please let us know. I can run this query at my end on SQL 2005 and SQL 2008.
Thanks,
Tejas
if i don’t have Value for Any Column then its Output Comes As ,,Night as in Your Example Can you Explain How to Apply Case Statement here in Stuff.So that , will not be Come if Value Is not Present for that Column
To avoid length problems, I have done
RIGHT((SELECT ',' + [LineString] FROM @firstSort ORDER BY [FirstPoint] DESC FOR XML PATH('')),LEN((SELECT ',' + [LineString] FROM @firstSort ORDER BY [FirstPoint] DESC FOR XML PATH('')))-1)I just grab the right side of the string minus 1. That way you don’t accidentally cut anything off.
HI,
I have a table named ‘Category_Master’ and it has a column named ‘category’ where the values are stored as follows
category
———–
a,s,d
z,x,c
q,w,e
when i execute the following query:
select LEFT(category, CHARINDEX( ‘,’, Artist_Cat) – 1) from Category_Master
i found output as ….
category
———–
a
z
q
i.e, I’m getting only first comma separated values as result, but I want the remaining comma separated values in separate table as the result.
i.e I need the output as :
category
———–
a
z
q
category
———–
s
x
w
and
category
———–
d
c
e
Please send me the proper query in order to get the above output as result.
Thank you in advance
regards,
zakir.
Search about Split function+SQL Server in google/bing
Thanks alot……..
I got an split function.
Suggest some better work for mysql
Regards
Zakir
hi
i have a problem to splite 2 words which is present in one column the first word is in english & the second word is in arabic meaning first & second word are same but in different language so now i want to seperate english word so that i can proceed my work as sql is not understanding arabic character in where condition
example
status code
submitted ارسلت
valid صحيح
unsent غيرمرسل
select left(column,charindex(‘ ‘,column)-1) from your_table
Hi Dave,
i am new to this field,recently i gone through one problem..
that i want to share with u and all readers and require assist for that.
i have created table with check constraint :
create table check1
(id int,
salary int check(salary >=1000 and salary<=5000));
inserted value through csv file:
1,500
2,1000
then i have done bulk insert:
bulk insert check1
from 'd:\csv.txt'
with
(fieldterminator=',',
rowterminator='\n')
and out put :
id | salary
1 500
2 1000
this is wrong output i m geting near id=1 where salary is 500 which is not acording to check constraint
plz Dave late me know were i m gone wrong
thanks in advance
Use this
bulk insert check1
from ‘d:\csv.txt’
with
(fieldterminator=’,',
rowterminator=’\n’,
check_constraints)
thanks madhivanan……
it’s working…….
madhivanan, i have one more doubt with above example,
if table having primary key or other constraints i have to go with same method…
Yes. You have to use the same method
i m stuck in one problem..which are the new record inserted into the table, i want to know which are the record are inserted..
emp{e_id,ename,e_dept}
thanks in advance
It is possible if you have a datetime column with defulat value of getdate()
you are amazing sir .
you always save my day ..
BTW : i used to do this using a UDF but the performance is terrible
Declare @result varchar(1000)
Set @result = ”
Select @result = @result + ColName+ ‘,’ From myTbl
Set @Result = Left(@result , Len(@Result) -1)
thanks a million
Sir,
I need to swap 3 rows to 1 columns..
Input Format :
ID Columns
————————–
1000 Data – 1
1000 Data – 2
1000 Data – 3
Output Should be…
ID Column1 Column2 Column3
——————————————————
1000 Data – 1 Data – 2 Data – 3
i have 3 table NNCE,MAM.ROVE
NNCE
——-
ID NAME DEPARTMENT
—————————-
1 MANI ECE
2 RAJA ECE
3 UDHAYANAN ECE
4 KARTHIK ECE
MAM
ID NAME DEPARTMENT
————————–
1 MANI IT
2 RAJA IT
3 UDHAYANAN IT
4 KARTHIL IT
ROVER
——–
ID NAME DEPARTMENT
——————————
1 MANI MCA
2 RAJA MCA
3 UDHAYANAN MCA
4 KARTHIK MCA
NOW I WANT OUTPUT
ID NAME DEPARTMENT
———————————-
1 MANI ECE,IT,MCA
2 RAJA ECE,IT,MCA
3 UDHAYANAN ECE,IT,MCA
4 KARTHIK ECE,IT,MCA
PLEASE SENT QERRY
Wow. I’ve been doing this a much harder way. Your method is much simpler and more efficient.
Thanks a ton!
Thanks for this wornderful article. Our entire team learnt new things.
-Naveen
Pinal very good article.
Thanks
Shyam
SELECT
STUFF(
(
SELECT
‘,’ + cast(Citation_Id as nvarchar(500))
FROM tollplus.violated_trips
FOR XML PATH(”)
), 1, 1, ”
) As CitationId
here we are getting the column values with CSV, bt i want to get with html tag then..
plz send me the solution
SELECT DISTINCT ISSUE_ID,
STUFF ((SELECT ‘, ‘ + PO_NUMBER + ‘ ( ‘+ CONVERT(VARCHAR(30), QUANTITY_ISSUED) + ‘ ‘ + UOM +’ ) ‘ FROM @temp WHERE CHLD.ISSUE_ID = MAIN.ISSUE_ID FOR XML PATH(”)), 1, 1, ”)AS PO_NUMBER
FROM @temp AS MAIN
Why r u use SubString function and give the 20000 fixed length.
If i have a very big query then what happend?????????????????
I have one table. One column ‘Name’ got values like – “1234,abcdef”
So, I want to display Name values like “abcdef”. Need to avoid “1234,” in value.
What function we have to use for this. Please let me know the sql query.
Thanks
select substring(col,patindex(‘%[a-b]%’,col),col),len(col)) from table
SELECT PARSENAME(REPLACE(name, ‘ ‘, ‘.’), 2) AS [FirstName],
PARSENAME(REPLACE(name, ‘ ,’, ‘.’), 1) AS [LastName]from table
SELECT PARSENAME(REPLACE(col, ‘ ,’, ‘.’), 1) AS [Name]from table
Hello,
I have to insert csv or excel file into sql server table.my table contains 6 fields but i want to insert only single column values from excel/csv.
please give me reply.
Thank you.
Refer this. It will solve your problem
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2010/03/17/bulk-insert-to-table-with-specific-columns.aspx
Hi all,
I need to convert the values in a column which is separated by comma to different column as follows,
Address Id Phone
——————————————————————–
345 Ram Nagar,Mumbai,MH,425124,India 12345 9945721543
123 rajaji Nagar,Bangalore,KA,524212,India 67890 8235645678
convert to this
Address Street City State Zip Country Id Phone
————————————————————————————–
same as above 345 Ram Nagar Mumbai MH 425124 India 12345 9945721543
same as above 123 rajaji Nagar Bangalore KA 524212 India 67890 8235645678
Refer this method
http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2008/09/11/splitting-delimited-data-to-columns-set-based-approach.aspx
Pinal, can you please help me with this. I know I can go with a stored proc, but for some reasons, I shouldn’t use it.
allowed_file_extensions in table UPLOAD has comma separated values from table FILE_EXTENSIONS
if allowed_file_extensions has atleast one entry with comma separated, and that has is_enabled = 0, then it should return 0.
It will return 1 only if for all values (comma separted) has is_enabled = 1
FILE_EXTENSIONS
id description is_enabled
1 .xls 1
2 .doc 1
3 .pdf 1
4 .rtf 1
5 .gif 1
6 .jpeg 1
7 .jpg 1
8 .docx 1
9 .mpeg 0
10 .mp3 0
UPLOAD
upload_id upload_name allowed_file_extensions
1 Template1 .xls, .doc, .pdf, .mp3, .mpeg, .pptx, .txt
2 Template2 .xls, .doc, .pdf, .rtf, .mp3, .jpeg, .jpg, .pptx, .txt
3 Template3 .xls, .doc, .pdf, .rtf, .gif, .pptx, .txt
Required Output in a view
upload_id is_enabled allowed_file_extensions
1 0 .xls, .doc, .pdf, .mp3, .mpeg, .pptx, .txt
2 0 .xls, .doc, .pdf, .mp3, .jpeg, .jpg, .pptx, .txt
3 1 .xls, .doc, .pdf, .rtf, .gif, .pptx, .txt
Thanks Pinal….the above xample which you have mentioned regarding that coma separated values(CSV)….thast amazing and helped a lot
Regards,
Yash
Hi Folks,
I have a integer field. For an instance i have a value like this 1500000. I want to return the value like this 1,500,000.
Any idea about this.
Thank you
Muthu
This is the formation issue that should be done in the front end application
Hi,
How can I insert comma separated strings in to diffrent rows of a table, with a single insert statement?
Use Bulk insert statement
Your information helped me a lot. thanks
Pinal Dave,
Thank you for all that you do.
I was wondering why you don’t like Greeks, Bulgarians, Russians, Chinese, Koreans and Thais?
Their language gets question marked when I run your T-SQL on the sys.syslanguages table in SQL 2008 R2.
SELECT langid, name,alias FROM sys.syslanguages
SELECT @value = SUBSTRING(
(SELECT ‘,’ + l.name
FROM sys.syslanguages l
FOR XML PATH(”)),2,200000)
us_english,Deutsch,Français,???,Dansk,Español,Italiano,Nederlands,Norsk,Português,Suomi,Svenska,ceština,magyar,polski,româna,hrvatski,slovencina,slovenski,e???????,?????????,???????,Türkçe,British,eesti,latviešu,lietuviu,Português (Brasil),????,???,????,Arabic,???
What is the datatype of @value? It should be nvarchar(max). Also you can simply use
SELECT SUBSTRING(
(SELECT ‘,’ + l.name
FROM sys.syslanguages l
FOR XML PATH(”)),2,200000) as csv
For anybody that had the issue of any ampersands being entitized as “& amp;” in your query result – see below for the syntax. That baked my head for a few hours. It uses the xquery .value to convert back to Nvarchar to avoid that issue. Example below Field1 is the key and FieldText is the one I want to summarize as a comma separated value list.
SELECT DISTINCT tm.Field1
STUFF(( SELECT DISTINCT ‘, ‘ + [FieldText] as [text()]
FROM Table1 ts
WHERE tm.Field1 = ts.Field1
FOR XML path(”), TYPE
).value(N’.', N’nvarchar(max)’), 1, 1,”) as Field1CSV
FROM Table1 tm
I HAVE THE BELOW SCRIPT
select DISTINCT expiry from Rec_Dtl where grn_number =27964 and m_code =’M605′
THE RERSUTLS ARE
exiry
——-
382268; 07/02/05
976131, 31/05/2011
I WANT THE SEPRATE TWO VALUES LIKE BELOW.
DISTINCT EXPIRY 1 , EXPRIY 2
————————————-
382268 07/02/05
976131 31/05/2011
I WANT RESULTS EXACTLY LIKE ABOVE. PLEASE HELP ME.
Pinal Dave,
I have the following query:
SELECT
c.CompanyID,
c.CompanyName,
ISNULL(c.LogoFileName,”) AS LogoFileName,
ISNULL(c.City,”) AS City,
ISNULL(s.strState,”) as [State],
ISNULL(m.Mode,”) as Mode
FROM tblCompany c
INNER JOIN tblCompanyPartners tcmp on c.CompanyID = tcmp.PartnerCompanyID
LEFT OUTER JOIN tblStates s ON C.StateID = S.intStateID
LEFT OUTER JOIN tblCompanyModes cm on c.CompanyID = cm.CompanyID
LEFT OUTER JOIN tblMode m ON cm.ModeID = m.ModeID WHERE c.PartnerTypeID IN (1,2)
AND C.CompanyID 31
and c.CompanyID not in (select PartnerCompanyID from tblCompanyCarrierPartners where [Status] IN (‘Blocked’,'Requested’,'Accepted’) and tblCompanyCarrierPartners.CompanyID = 31) order by companyid desc
The following result is returned:
18 christ carrier company file1 San Jose New Hampshire LTL
18 christ carrier company file1 San Jose New Hampshire Oversize
14 Milton file2 Dallas California Intermodal
Now, I need to get the following result:
18 christ carrier company file1 San Jose New Hampshire LTL, Oversize
14 Milton file2 Dallas California Intermodal
I am really stuck up with this task. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Varma
found something even more easy
http://geekswithblogs.net/mnf/archive/2007/10/02/t-sql-user-defined-function-to-concatenate-column-to-csv-string.aspx
SELECT STUFF((SELECT ‘,’ + Table.ColumnName FROM Table FOR XML PATH(”)),1, 1, ”) AS CSVColumn
My Table is Like below
Create table ABC (column nvarchar(2000))
insert ABC values (‘ab1|ab2|ab3|ab4|ab5|ab6|ab7|ab8′)
insert ABC values (‘bc1|bc2|bc3|bc4|bc5|bc6|bc7|bc8′)
here i want only display like below
ComnnXYZ
ab7
bc7
How to do a select statement for value stored in comma separated in db.
i have two table named parent and child parent table have PID which is primary key declared as foreign key for child table i want to display results like
PID ChildID
1 1,2,3
2 4,5
Is it possible for group_concat for two tables in sql 2008 ?
How to get reverse of it means if we have a variable having comma seprated vaules how to get them into a column so we can have operation on it
thanks.. helpful info
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I’m a total SQL newbie, but I found I needed to dump some data from MS SQL to CSV and tried to hack it myself. The frustration with my code and this code is that it doesn’t create proper CSV (e.g. if you have a comma or \n in one of your fields you’re screwed). I wrote a bunch of ugly code to add quotations around each column and replace all of the newlines with spaces. Could your solution incorporate something like that so we could get proper CSV out of MS SQL?
Hi,
Its good one to get d value in comma.
But my query is littel bit different:
What if I want comma sepereated value for more than two column?
Agrment Schedule ThirdParty Billing Copmany
A001000020 1 T001000010 1 ABC
A001000020 1 T001000017 1 PQR
A001000020 1 T001000034 1 XYZ
For the above details i wanna result like
Agreement Schedule Thirdparty Billing
A001000020 1 T001000010,T001000017, T001000034 1
Copmany
ABC,PQR,XYZ
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Hi, If a column contains coma separated numbers, how to remove a particular number?
Say column “ID” contains 100,200,300,400,1000,2100,100
I would like to remove 100
If I use Replace function, it would modify 1000 and 2100 as well which I don’t want .
It should remove only 100 which may present at any index of the column ( 100, 200,100)
How to achieve this?
use this approach
replace(‘,’+col+’,',’,100,’,',’)
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