How to concat many rows into one string in SQL Server 2008? [duplicate]

Question

How to concat many rows into one strings?

Query:

SELECT name FROM mytable;

Result:

name
----
kim
lee
park
cho

Just I want.

name
----
kim,lee,park,cho

Impossible?

Answer 1

Try this one -

DECLARE @temp TABLE (name NVARCHAR(50))

INSERT INTO @temp (name)
VALUES ('kim'),('lee'),('park'),('cho')

SELECT STUFF((
    SELECT ',' + name
    FROM @temp
    FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)'), 1, 1, '')

Output -

kim,lee,park,cho