Concatenate many rows into a single text string wi

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I have the following table: tblFile

My Desired output:

I am Concatenating many rows into a single text string; however, I cannot get the grouping correct. As the code is now it will just display for each record in the FileNameString field: AAA,BBB,CCC,DDD,EEE,FFF

Any suggestions with the grouping!

SELECT FileID, Stuff(
(SELECT     N', ' + CONVERT(Varchar, FileName) 
FROM         tblFile  FOR XML PATH(''),TYPE )
.value('text()[1]','nvarchar(max)'),1,2,N'')AS FileNameString 
From tblFile
GROUP BY FileID

Answer 1

try this -

SELECT DISTINCT
      fileid
    , STUFF((
        SELECT N', ' + CAST([filename] AS VARCHAR(255))
        FROM tblFile f2
        WHERE f1.fileid = f2.fileid ---- string with grouping by fileid
        FOR XML PATH (''), TYPE), 1, 2, '') AS FileNameString
FROM tblFile f1