Hi everyone,
Here is my problem. I have a Table Variable (I could easily turn it into a Temp Table instead) that will sometimes have rows that are identical except for one specific column. The column is of nvarchar. When the rest of the columns for those rows are identical, I want to combine all of the values of that column into a single nvarchar with a delimiter in between each value. Then combine the rows where all of the other columns are the same and that specific column now have the single nvarchar.
Another complexity to this is that if that specific column has a null, then I dont want that row combined with the others.
Example: -
DECLARE @Table1 TABLE
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(
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ID int,
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Column1 nvarchar(10),
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Column2 nvarchar(10),
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Column3 nvarchar(10),
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ColumnX nvarchar(1000)
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)
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (1, 'Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3', NULL)
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (1, 'Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3', 'ValueX1')
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (1, 'Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3', 'ValueX2')
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (1, 'Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3', 'ValueX3')
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (1, 'Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3', 'ValueX4')
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The Desired Result Is: -
ID, Column1, Column2, Column3, ColumnX
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1, 'Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3', NULL
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1, 'Value1', 'Value2', 'Value3', 'ValueX1<br/>ValueX2<br/>ValueX3<br/>ValueX4'
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Any suggestion on how I should start to tackle this problem would be very helpful. I will be working on this on Monday morning. I am using T-SQL.
Thank You,
Denny
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Yes, it would be nice to be able to say -
SELECT ID,Column1,Coulmn2,Column3,concat(Columnx) as Columnx
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FROM @Table1
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GROUP BY ID,Column1,Coulmn2,Column3
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and the database egine would just add the strings togeter with a comma separator. Unfortunately there is no such aggregate as concat().
I have done in the past and I think I resorted to a cursor to achieve it.
I believe to do it with a query instead
you will need to be able to sequence each identical ID,Column1,Coulmn2,Column3 from 1 to however many identical records there are in each particular group.
Then you could say something like -
SELECT ID,Column1,Coulmn2,Column3,Max(ColumnX1) + ',' + Max(ColumnX2) + etc etc etc as Columnx
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FROM
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( SELECT ID,Column1,Coulmn2,Column3
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,case when SeqNo=1 then ColumnX else'' end as ColumnX1
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,case when SeqNo=2 then ColumnX else'' end as ColumnX2
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, etc etc etc
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FROM
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@Table1
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)a
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GROUP BY ID,Column1,Coulmn2,Column3
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of course the practicalities of doing something like that is dependent on the maximum number of different values in any particular group of ID,Column1,Coulmn2,Column3.
Good luck with that and its no wonder im going bald
Thank you Delerna.
I am not allowed to use cursors, so I had to use an alternative way to loop. I also had to add an identity to the original table. Here is my result: - DECLARE @Table1 TABLE
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(
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RowCounter int identity (1,1),
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ID int,
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Column1 nvarchar(10),
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Column2 nvarchar(10),
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Column3 nvarchar(10),
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ColumnX nvarchar(10)
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)
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (1, 'Value11', 'Value12', 'Value13', NULL)
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (1, 'Value11', 'Value12', 'Value13', 'Value1X1')
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (1, 'Value11', 'Value12', 'Value13', 'Value1X2')
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (1, 'Value11', 'Value12', 'Value13', 'Value1X3')
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (1, 'Value11', 'Value12', 'Value13', 'Value1X4')
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (2, 'Value21', 'Value22', 'Value23', NULL)
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (2, 'Value21', 'Value22', 'Value23', 'Value2X1')
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (2, 'Value21', 'Value22', 'Value23', 'Value2X2')
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (2, 'Value21', 'Value22', 'Value23', 'Value2X3')
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INSERT INTO @Table1 VALUES (2, 'Value21', 'Value22', 'Value23', 'Value2X4')
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DECLARE @iCounter INT,
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@iLoop INT,
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@iID INT
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DECLARE @Result TABLE
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(
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ID int,
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Column1 nvarchar(10),
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Column2 nvarchar(10),
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Column3 nvarchar(10),
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ColumnX nvarchar(1000)
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)
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SET @iCounter = 1
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SELECT @iLoop = Max(RowCounter) FROM @Table1
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WHILE @iCounter <= @iLoop
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BEGIN
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SELECT @iID = ID FROM @Table1 WHERE RowCounter = @iCounter
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IF @iID IS NOT NULL
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IF (NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM @Result WHERE ID = @iID AND ColumnX IS NOT NULL) --This ID is not yet in result table
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OR EXISTS(SELECT * FROM @Table1 WHERE RowCounter = @iCounter AND ColumnX IS NULL) --OR the ColumnX is null
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)
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BEGIN
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INSERT INTO @Result SELECT ID,Column1,Column2,Column3,ColumnX
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FROM @Table1 WHERE RowCounter = @iCounter --Add Row to result table
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DELETE @Table1 WHERE RowCounter = @iCounter --Remove row from initial table
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END
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ELSE --A row with ID = @iID and a non-null ColumnX already exists in result table
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BEGIN
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UPDATE @Result SET ColumnX = ColumnX + '<br/>' + (SELECT ColumnX FROM @Table1 WHERE RowCounter = @iCounter)
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FROM @Result WHERE ID = @iID AND ColumnX IS NOT NULL --Update ColumnX
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DELETE @Table1 WHERE RowCounter = @iCounter --Remove row from initial table
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END
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SET @iCounter = @iCounter + 1
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END
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SELECT * FROM @Result
The Desired Resulting Table Is: - ID, Column1, Column2, Column3, ColumnX
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1, Value11, Value12, Value13, NULL
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1, Value11, Value12, Value13, Value1X1<br/>Value1X2<br/>Value1X3<br/>Value1X4
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2, Value21, Value22, Value23, NULL
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2, Value21, Value22, Value23, Value2X1<br/>Value2X2<br/>Value2X3<br/>Value2X4
Thanks again,
Denny
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