Question

I have a table called “Customer” like below

ID         NAME
1001       MATHEW
1002       THOMAS
1003       ALEX
1004       ALBY

I need to see output something like array like below in a single colum using sql query

out put like below

FORMAT_DATA
1001:MATHEW|1002:THOMAS|1003:ALEX|1004:ALBY|

How i do this in sl query

Answer 1

You can use FOR XML

Query:

select
(
  select RIGHT(ID,10) + ':' + NAME + '|'
  from Customer
   for xml path(''), type
).value('.','nvarchar(max)') DATA_FORMAT;

Data:

CREATE TABLE Customer (
    ID int, NAME varchar(20));
INSERT Customer VALUES
    (1001,       'MATHEW'),
    (1002,       'THOMAS'),
    (1003,       'ALEX'),
    (1004,       'ALBY');

Results:

|                                  DATA_FORMAT |
------------------------------------------------
| 1001:MATHEW|1002:THOMAS|1003:ALEX|1004:ALBY| |