Let’s say you have a table called ‘car_make’ and another table called ‘car_model’. There is a one to many relationship between make and model.
You want to bring back a result set of all makes, 1 row per make, but you want only 1 generated column for model that has all the models concatenate into that 1 column.
You also want to add carriage controls so each model will appear on a separate line in your row on your report.
Let’s say you have 4 models for your 1 make of Chevy. Here is the output of what you are striving for:
Make Model
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Chevy Astro
Beretta
Blazer
Caprice
The following SQL will give you this result:
SELECT make,
left(ModelsConcat.Models,LEN(ModelsConcat.Models)-PATINDEX('%[^'+CHAR(13)+CHAR(10)+']%',REVERSE(ModelsConcat.Models))+1) As CarModels
OUTER APPLY (SELECT DISTINCT SUBSTRING((SELECT DISTINCT (m1.model + ', ' + + char(13))
FROM car_make AS m1
WHERE a.make = m1.make
ORDER BY (m1.model + ', ' + char(13)) For Xml Path(''), type).value('.', 'nvarchar(max)') ,1,2000) AS Models
FROM car_model) AS ModelsConcat
FROM car_make a
In your expression, you simply reference the field like this:
=Fields!CarModels.Value
