Concatenate many rows into a single text string using SQL Server 2008

Greetings,

try this:

if object_id('people') is Not Null drop view people;
GO
create view people ( Name ) 
as
select 'RAM'
union all select 'GURU'
union all select 'Sundar'
union all select 'Shyam'
union all select 'Inba'
union all select 'Kalai'
GO
select replace( replace( replace( (select Name as R from People for XML raw), '"/><row r="', ', ' ), '">', '' ), '</row>