Combining Text Data Rows

I am working with a database derived from text documents. One of the tables (TEXT001) contains the text of the documents with each paragraph of each document assigned to its own row with a paragraph number in a SectionNo column. I want the entire text of each document in a single row with its own unique number (so that I can do a full text search with SQL Server 2005 that will search and return the entire document as a result). How do I combine the rows with the same DocumentID into a single row of text data? This will put the entire text content of each document in its own row.

TEXT001 table as it is





DocumentID

SectionNo

SectionText


1

1

Paragraph 1 of Document 1


1

2

Paragraph 2 of Document 1


1

3

Paragraph 3 of Document 1


2

1

Paragraph 1 of Document 2


2

2

Paragraph 2 of Document 2

New TEXT table





DocumentID

SectionText


1

Entire text of Document 1


2

Entire text of Document 2

I realize that I can use €œunion€? to combine tables with the same data type, but that is not what I am trying to do. Ideally, there is a way to create a new table and fill it with the combined SectionText data as a batch command. If anyone can tell how to do this, I would appreciate your help.

More modestly, I tried to use the €œGroup By€? clause to combine the SectionText data using this query:

SELECT DocumentID, SectionText FROM TEXT001
GROUP BY DocumentID

And got this error message:

Msg 8120, Level 16, State 1, Line 5
Column 'TEXT001.SectionText' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.

I figured that I could not contain the SectionText data as an aggregate function since it is text data and cannot be €œsummed€?, so I tried including it in the GROUP BY clause:

SELECT DocumentID, SectionText FROM TEXT001
GROUP BY DocumentID, SectionText

And got his error message:

Msg 306, Level 16, State 2, Line 5
The text, ntext, and image data types cannot be compared or sorted, except when using IS NULL or LIKE operator.

Where do I go from here to accomplish my goal of combining the paragraphs of each document into one row per document?