Question

items table

ID    item_id     item
------------------------
1     44          shoe 
2     44          boat
3     44          car
4     82          truck
5     82          shirt
6     82          tree
7     99          egg
8     99          carrot
9     99          penguin

So I do:

SELECT item 
FROM items 
WHERE item_id = 82

I get the following on different rows:

 truck
 shirt
 tree

Is there a SELECT that will return ALL items in one row , possibly
separated by some delimiter:

truck,shirt,tree

I know how to do it the long way but is there a simple select to do the same thing?

Thanks!

Answer 1

SELECT
     [item_id],
     STUFF(
         (SELECT ',' + [item]
          FROM TableName
          WHERE [item_id] = a.[item_id] AND item_id = 82
          FOR XML PATH (''))
          , 1, 1, '')  AS NamesList
FROM TableName AS a
WHERE item_id = 82
GROUP BY [item_id]

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