Can some one write a query for the below requirement. here is the code that you can use to create and populate the tables Create table XYZ (id int, item1 uniqueidentifier) create table ABC( item2 uniqueidentifier,description varchar(10)) INSERT INTO XYZ VALUES(1, 'ABC77892-DEF8-FE72-9F6E-000CCD9A958F') INSERT INTO XYZ VALUES(2, 'ABC77892-DEF8-FE72-9F6E-000000000000') INSERT INTO XYZ VALUES(3, 'ABC77892-D000-FE72-9F6E-000000000000') iNSERT INTO ABC VALUES ('ABC77892-DEF8-FE72-9F6E-000CCD9A958F', 'DEF') iNSERT INTO ABC VALUES ('ABC77892-DEF8-FE72-9F6E-000CCD9A958F', 'GHI') iNSERT INTO ABC VALUES ('ABC77892-DEF8-FE72-9F6E-000CCD9A958F', 'JKL') iNSERT INTO ABC VALUES ('ABC77892-DEF8-FE72-9F6E-000000000000', 'XXX') iNSERT INTO ABC VALUES ('ABC77892-DEF8-FE72-9F6E-000000000000', 'YYY') iNSERT INTO ABC VALUES ('ABC77892-DEF8-FE72-9F6E-000000000000', 'zzz') -- Now I want a select statement which joins the above tables on Item1 and Item2 and the resul should be as shown below. There are three columns in the result ID, Item1, Concatnated description 1 ABC77892-DEF8-FE72-9F6E-000CCD9A958F DEF, GHI,JKL 2 ABC77892-DEF8-FE72-9F6E-000000000000 XXX,YYY,ZZZ 3. ABC77892-D000-FE72-9F6E-000000000000 Null Thanks in advance for the help
http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/amachanic/archive/2004/11/10/5065.aspx?Pending=true Madhivanan Failing to plan is Planning to fail
Nice post Madhivanan [<img src='/community/emoticons/emotion-2.gif' alt='' />]<br /><br />Here you go Raj1979 ... [<img src='/community/emoticons/emotion-5.gif' alt='' />]<br /><br />select <br />x.id,<br />x.item1, <br />dbo.ConcatXYZABC(x.item1) as description<br />from xyz x<br /><br /><br />CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[ConcatXYZABC](@item1 uniqueidentifier)<br />RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)<br />AS<br />BEGIN<br />DECLARE @Output VARCHAR(8000)<br />SET @Output = ''<br /><br />SELECT @Output =CASE @Output <br />WHEN '' THEN description <br />ELSE @Output + ', ' + description <br />END<br />FROM abc<br />WHERE item2 = @item1<br />ORDER BY item2<br /><br />RETURN @Output<br />END<br /><br />Able was I ere I saw Elba !