Question

I have a column with some generic data and I want to present the data in a single, pipe-delimited row. The data:

ColumnA
========
asdfaa
asdf

Desired result:

asdfaa|asdf

Answer 1

SELECT Result = STUFF((SELECT N'|' + ColumnA
    FROM dbo.[table]
    FOR XML PATH(''), 
        TYPE).value(N'./text()[1]', N'nvarchar(max)'), 1, 1, N'');