Sql Server Row Concatenation
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21-08-2019 - |
Question
I have a table (table variable in-fact) that holds several thousand (50k approx) rows of the form:
group (int) isok (bit) x y
20 0 1 1
20 1 2 1
20 1 3 1
20 0 1 2
20 0 2 1
21 1 1 1
21 0 2 1
21 1 3 1
21 0 1 2
21 1 2 2
And to pull this back to the client is a fairly hefty task (especially since isok is a bit). What I would like to do is transform this into the form:
group mask
20 01100
21 10101
And maybe go even a step further by encoding this into a long etc.
NOTE: The way in which the data is stored currently cannot be changed.
Is something like this possible in SQL Server 2005, and if possible even 2000 (quite important)?
EDIT: I forgot to make it clear that the original table is already in an implicit ordering that needs to be maintained, there isnt one column that acts as a linear sequence, but rather the ordering is based on two other columns (integers) as above (x & y)
Solution
You can treat the bit as a string ('0', '1') and deploy one of the many string aggregate concatenation methods described here: http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/t-sql-programming/concatenating-row-values-in-transact-sql/