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Comments by Anton Burtsev (Top 3 by date)
Anton Burtsev
9-Mar-11 2:29am
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We need to get one singe string value from multiple rows. Since MS SQL have no aggregation function for string concatenation we have a number of options for that task. One of them is FOR XML.
Anton Burtsev
8-Mar-11 13:40pm
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1. Actually I didn't understand what you mean by
select ProductName+','
from Northwind..Products
Where is concatenation??? My tip is about concatenation.
2. I use SQL Server 2008. I believe that in previous versions you can change
@var += value
to
@var = @var + value
However, I'm not sure about recurrent expressions in previous SQL Server versions too :-)
Anton Burtsev
8-Mar-11 10:43am
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Do you mean
select @ProductName += ProductName + ','
from Northwind..Products
"+=" operator is very slow in case of large strings. switching to XML is something like using StringBuilder in C# instead of concatenating strings.