Question

I have 3 columns in my table X:

Id      State       Type
1        NJ         Form1
1        NY         Form 2
1        TX         Form 3

I want to consolidate it to one column in table Y:

Id   FormTypes
1    NJ:Form1
     NY:Form2
     TX: Form3

Is this possible to achieve???

Currently I have worked out so much:

DECLARE @NewLine as char(2) = char(13) + char (10)

UPDATE tableY

SET FormTypes =
(
      select substring(
         (select ':'+ [State] + ':'+ Type+ @NewLine AS 'data()' 
            from tableX  
            for xml path(''))
      ,3, 255)
as "MyList"  )

This is giving me garbage like this:

NJ:Form1'&#x0D'; NY:Form2'&#x0D'; TX:Form3'&#x0D';

The reason for getting it in this form is due to the way it is getting read in multiple files.

Answer 1

SELECT 
     x2.id, 
     STUFF((SELECT char(10)+x1.State+':'+x1.Type FROM tableX x1 WHERE x1.id=x2.id GROUP BY x1.id for xml path(''),TYPE),1,1,'') as stype 
FROM tableX x2
GROUP BY x2.id

this will give you tableY form