Concatenating Text Fields?

Dec 18, 2007


Hi All,

I am trying to get at some text fields from an AS400(JBA) system. the problem i'm having is that for each new line of text on AS400 it creates a new row with a line number associated in the SQL table. When trying to export to excel this causes problems because i need the text in one cell not spread over 15/20 lines.

I need to create a query/function that will concatenate the text lines together. I'm fairly new to T-SQL so could do with some help.


Example:-
ID TxtLn Text








R262965
1
Text 1

R262965
2
Text 2

R262965
3
Text 3


What i'm aiming for is:-
ID ConcatText
R262965 Text1 Text2 Text3



Can anyone please help me or guide me towards a starting point.

Thanks

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