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Aggregating strings in SQL

Asked by iaing1000 in SQL Server 2005, MS SQL Server, Visual Basic Programming

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Hi,

I have a table containing client visit records that looks like the following (I've simplified it for illustration)

Visits:

ClientID_FK  VisitDate        VisitNotes
1                  29/05/08      'Note 1.'
2                  28/05/08      'Called by Phone.'
3                  03/05/07      'Will call back.'
3                  14/09/08      'Note 2.'
2                  13/08/08      'Refer to notes.'
2                  04/04/08      'blah blah blah.'
1                  11/11/06      'More notes...'

There is also a clients table which is unique on the client number, it has a VarChar(MAX) comments field which I'd like to be a concatenation of the visit notes in reverse chronological order... it needs to end up looking something like this..

Clients:

ClientID  Comments
1            'Note 1. More notes...'
2            'Refer to notes. Called by Phone. blah blah blah.'
3            'Note 2. Will call back.'

I've tried grouping the visit table by client number but don't know what aggregate function to use to get what I need...assuming that's the best approach.

Any ideas folks?


Thanks loads
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