Comments on: FOR XML EXPLICIT http://www.hedgate.net/articles/2006/10/09/for-xml-explicit/ Contextual Chameleon Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:18:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: mlevitt http://www.hedgate.net/articles/2006/10/09/for-xml-explicit/comment-page-1/#comment-6864 mlevitt Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:55:07 +0000 #comment-6864 Chris, <br><br>I need your help, Please!<br>I have this data in a table<br><br>grp ledger amount<br>1 A01 5<br>1 A02 3<br>1 A03 4<br>2 A22 8<br>3 A33 3<br>3 A36 4<br><br>I need to sum the amounts grouping by grp<br>I also need to concatenate the ledgers by grp<br>The result needs to look like this. How do I do this without a cursor or loop on a Sql2000 server. I've tried to make sense of FOR XML but I'm not getting it. Also, I'm not sure if I even have to use it.<br><br>grp amt ledger<br>1 12 A01, A02, A03<br>2 8 A22<br>3 7 A33, A36 Chris,

I need your help, Please!
I have this data in a table

grp ledger amount
1 A01 5
1 A02 3
1 A03 4
2 A22 8
3 A33 3
3 A36 4

I need to sum the amounts grouping by grp
I also need to concatenate the ledgers by grp
The result needs to look like this. How do I do this without a cursor or loop on a Sql2000 server. I've tried to make sense of FOR XML but I'm not getting it. Also, I'm not sure if I even have to use it.

grp amt ledger
1 12 A01, A02, A03
2 8 A22
3 7 A33, A36

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