Question

I have sql query to get locations for files

select FileName, FileLocation from tblFile

and data like

FileName               FileLocation

file1                  \\server1\folder1\file1
file1                  \\server2\folder1\file1
file2                  \\server1\folder1\file2
file2                  \\server2\folder1\file2

I would like to get data like:

FileName               FileLocations

file1                  \\server1\folder1\file1, \\server2\folder1\file1
file2                  \\server1\folder1\file2, \\server2\folder1\file2

How can I get above result in sql server?

Answer 1

SQL Fiddle

MS SQL Server 2008 Schema Setup:

create table tblFile
(
  FileName varchar(10),
  FileLocation varchar(30)
)

insert into tblFile values
('file1',                  '\\server1\folder1\file1'),
('file1',                  '\\server2\folder1\file1'),
('file2',                  '\\server1\folder1\file2'),
('file2',                  '\\server2\folder1\file2')

Query 1:

select T1.FileName,
       (
       select ', '+T2.FileLocation
       from tblFile as T2
       where T1.FileName = T2.FileName
       for xml path(''), type
       ).value('substring(text()[1], 3)', 'varchar(max)') as FileLocations
from tblFile as T1
group by T1.FileName

Results:

| FILENAME |                                    FILELOCATIONS |
---------------------------------------------------------------
|    file1 | \\server1\folder1\file1, \\server2\folder1\file1 |
|    file2 | \\server1\folder1\file2, \\server2\folder1\file2 |