How to concatenate text from multiple rows into a single text string in SQL Server

If you are on SQL Server 2017 or Azure, see Mathieu Renda answer. I had a similar issue when I was trying to join two tables with one-to-many relationships. In SQL 2005 I found that XML PATH method can handle the concatenation of the rows very easily. If there is a table called STUDENTS SubjectID … Read more

Finding duplicate values in a SQL table

SELECT name, email, COUNT(*) FROM users GROUP BY name, email HAVING COUNT(*) > 1 Simply group on both of the columns. Note: the older ANSI standard is to have all non-aggregated columns in the GROUP BY but this has changed with the idea of “functional dependency”: In relational database theory, a functional dependency is a … Read more

Add a column with a default value to an existing table in SQL Server

Syntax: ALTER TABLE {TABLENAME} ADD {COLUMNNAME} {TYPE} {NULL|NOT NULL} CONSTRAINT {CONSTRAINT_NAME} DEFAULT {DEFAULT_VALUE} WITH VALUES Example: ALTER TABLE SomeTable ADD SomeCol Bit NULL –Or NOT NULL. CONSTRAINT D_SomeTable_SomeCol –When Omitted a Default-Constraint Name is autogenerated. DEFAULT (0)–Optional Default-Constraint. WITH VALUES –Add if Column is Nullable and you want the Default Value for Existing Records. Notes: … Read more

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