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Re: Merge Multiple Rows Into Single Result

From: Brian E Dick <bdick_at_cox.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:43:51 GMT
Message-ID: <bWTA9.1140$0U1.59748@news2.east.cox.net>


Use Sybase ASA. It has an aggregate string function called List().

"Niko" <nick_wakefield_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9da94cd1.0211140835.56fa096b_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know a way to do the following, given a table like
>
> Field_A, Field_B
> a first word
> a second word
> a third word
>
>
> then runa group by query on it to merge the contents of field_b
> seperating with commas.
>
> select field_a, merge(field_b,',')
> from table
> group by a
>
> resulting in
> Field_A New_String
> a first word, second word, thrid word
Received on Thu Nov 14 2002 - 14:43:51 CST

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