How to get Comma Delimited Values in GridView with Grouping Facility?

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Hi to all.In my database i've three tables Empl,Items,Orders as follows

EmpId EmpName

1 Ravi

2 Kumar

3 Sam

4 Telpo

Itemid ItemDesc

1 keyBoard

2 Mouse

3 Harddrive

4 CableBus

OrderId EmpId Itemid

1 1 2

2 1 4

3 2 1

4 2 3

Now i need to display the last table in a GridView as follows

Empname ItemDesc

Kumar CableBus,Harddrive

Ravi keyboard,Mouse

Can anyone please helpme out for this scenario.

Thanks in Advance.

Posted 31-Mar-13 22:45pm

Jagan911

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pradiprenushe · Answer 1 · 2013-04-01T00:25:00

Solution 1

Try this

SQL

DECLARE @ItemDesc VARCHAR(MAX)

select A.EmpName,(SELECT @ItemDesc = COALESCE(@ItemDesc +',' ,'') +  ItemDesc
			FROM  Items
			where Items.Itemid = B.Itemid) as ItemDesc

from Emp A inner join Orders B
On A.EmpId = B.EmpId

Posted 1-Apr-13 0:25am

pradiprenushe