i want to select from a Table called RMA
(simplified):
idRMA| RMA_Number
-----------------------
1 RMA0006701
2 RMA0006730
3 RMA0006736
4 RMA0006739
5 RMA0006742
There is a junction table between RMA
and tdefSymptomCode
called trelRMA_SymptomCode
:
fiSymptomCode| fiRMA
-----------------------
1 1
1 2
2 2
5 3
7 3
8 3
2 5
3 5
4 5
5 5
for the sake of completeness, this is tdefSymptomCode
:
idSymptomCode SymptomCodeNumber SymptomCodeName
1 0000 Audio problem
2 0100 SIM problem
3 0200 Appearance problem
4 0300 Network problem
5 0500 On/Off problem
Q:
every RMA can have 0-5 SymptomCodes. How can i join the SymptomCodeNumber with a delimiter like ':' together in a scalar-valued-function, so that i only get one varchar-value as result.
Something like this(where getRmaSymptomCodes
is a SVF):
SELECT idRMA, RMA_Number, dbo.getRmaSymptomCodes(idRMA,':') AS Symptoms FROM RMA
This could be the symptoms of 3 different RMA's (all have exactly one symptom):
RMA_Number SymptomCodeNumber
RMA0004823 0100
RMA0004823 0200
RMA0000083 0300
RMA0000084 0300
RMA0000084 0400
That should be concatenated as:
RMA0004823 0100:0200
RMA0000083 0300
RMA0000084 0300:0400
Thank you in advance
Update: Thanks to all i have created this working function
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[getRmaSymptomCodes]
(
@idRMA int,
@delimiter varchar(5)
)
RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Codes VARCHAR(8000)
SELECT @Codes = COALESCE(@Codes + @delimiter, '') + tdefSymptomCode.SymptomCodeNumber
FROM RMA INNER JOIN
trelRMA_SymptomCode ON RMA.IdRMA = trelRMA_SymptomCode.fiRMA INNER JOIN
tdefSymptomCode ON trelRMA_SymptomCode.fiSymptomCode = tdefSymptomCode.idSymptomCode
where idRMA=@idRMA
order by SymptomCodeNumber
return @Codes
END