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Simulating group_concat MySQL function in Microsoft SQL Server 2005?

I have 2 table like this

Class table :

And Student Table:

I want to join two table but i want to have result like this
ClsName StdName
A            George
B            Jenifer,Anjel,Alex
C            Alex,Joe,Michael

how could achieve to this?
in fact for each class i want to have one row with distinct their student name

Answer 1

You should be able to use the following:

select c.name ClassName,
    STUFF(( SELECT  distinct ', ' + s.name
            FROM    student s
            WHERE   c.id = s.classid
            FOR XML PATH('')
            ), 1, 2, '')  Names
from class c

Result:

ClassName | Names
A         | George
B         | Alex, Anjel, Jenifer
C         | Alex, Joe, Micheal

Here is the working query that I used:

;with class(id, name) as
(
    select 1, 'A'
    union all
    select 2, 'B'
    union all
    select 3, 'C'
),
student(id, name, classid) as
(
    select 1, 'Alex', 3
    union all
    select 2, 'Alex', 3
    union all
    select 3, 'Alex', 3
    union all
    select 4, 'Joe', 3
    union all
    select 5, 'Micheal', 3
    union all
    select 6, 'Jenifer', 2
    union all
    select 7, 'Anjel', 2
    union all
    select 8, 'Alex', 2
    union all
    select 9, 'George', 1
)
select c.name,
    STUFF(( SELECT  distinct ', ' + s.name
            FROM    student s
            WHERE   c.id = s.classid
            FOR XML PATH('')
            ), 1, 2, '') Names
from class c