T-SQL - 使用 STUFF 连接分组列并删除重复项

Question

I have a table that looks like this:

EmailAddress: nvarchar(255)
MarketingEmailOptIn: nvarchar(50)
NewsletterOptIn: nvarchar(50)
ThoughtLeaderOptIn: nvarchar(50)

My SQL statement shown below takes the data above and concatenates the "Subscription Type" using a comma as the delimiter:

SELECT  
    EmailAddress,
    STUFF((SELECT ',' + 
              CASE
                 WHEN B.MarketingEmailOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 'MarketingEmail' 
                 WHEN B.ThoughtLeaderOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 'ThoughtLeader'
                 WHEN B.NewsletterOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 'Newsletter'
              END
          FROM UK_AGT_AgentForms_TEST_DE B 
          WHERE ISNULL(B.EmailAddress, '') = ISNULL(A.EmailAddress, '')
          FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 2, '') AS Subscriptions
FROM
    UK_AGT_AgentForms_TEST_DE A
GROUP BY 
    EmailAddress 

Running this SQL produces the following output:

However notice that MarketingEmail is listed twice because the source table ALSO has it listed twice (1st and 2nd rows). I need to omit any duplicate detected, so that my resulting table would look like:

I'm pretty new to the STUFF keyword. I'm just kind of lost on how to detect duplicates at run time - any advice is appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

Try something like this:

DECLARE @Data table (
    EmailAddress nvarchar(255),
    MarketingEmailOptIn nvarchar(50),
    NewsletterOptIn nvarchar(50),
    ThoughtLeaderOptIn nvarchar(50)
);

INSERT INTO @Data VALUES
    ( 'mike@mikemarks.com', 'TRUE', NULL, NULL ),
    ( 'mike@mikemarks.com', 'TRUE', 'TRUE', NULL ),
    ( 'mike@mikemarks.com', 'TRUE', NULL, 'TRUE' );

SELECT
    EmailAddress
    , STUFF ( ( CASE WHEN EOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN ',MarketingEmail' ELSE '' END
        + CASE WHEN NOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN ',Newsletter' ELSE '' END
        + CASE WHEN TOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN ',ThoughtLeader' ELSE '' END 
    ), 1, 1, '' ) AS Subscriptions
FROM (

    SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT
        EmailAddress
        , MAX ( MarketingEmailOptIn ) AS EOptIn
        , MAX ( NewsletterOptIn ) AS NOptIn
        , MAX ( ThoughtLeaderOptIn ) AS TOptIn
    FROM @Data A --UK_AGT_AgentForms_TEST_DE
    GROUP BY EmailAddress
    ORDER BY EmailAddress

) AS x
ORDER BY 
    EmailAddress;

Returns

+--------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|    EmailAddress    |              Subscriptions              |
+--------------------+-----------------------------------------+
| mike@mikemarks.com | MarketingEmail,Newsletter,ThoughtLeader |
+--------------------+-----------------------------------------+

Answer 2

If you have Sql Server 2017 or later, you can use String_agg() to simplify this:

SELECT   
    EmailAddress,
        STRING_AGG(CASE
                 WHEN MarketingEmailOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 'MarketingEmail' 
                 WHEN ThoughtLeaderOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 'ThoughtLeader'
                 WHEN NewsletterOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 'Newsletter'
              END, ', ') AS Subscriptions
FROM
    UK_AGT_AgentForms_TEST_DE
GROUP BY 
    EmailAddress

If you still see duplicates, you can use conditional aggregation in a nested query to roll it up first:

SELECT  
    EmailAddress,
          CASE WHEN MarketingEmailOptIn > 0 THEN 'MarketingEmail,' ELSE '' END
        + CASE WHEN ThoughtLeaderOptIn > 0 THEN 'ThoughtLeader,' ELSE '' END
        + CASE WHEN NewsletterOptIn = > 0 THEN 'Newsletter' ELSE '' END
         AS Subscriptions
FROM (
    SELECT EmailAddress
        , SUM(CASE WHEN MarketingEmailOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) MarketingEmailOptIn
        , SUM(CASE WHEN ThoughtLeaderOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) ThoughtLeaderOptIn
        , SUM(CASE WHEN NewsletterOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) NewsletterOptIn
    FROM UK_AGT_AgentForms_TEST_DE
    GROUP BY EmailAddress
) T

Answer 3

Pewh. I had to play around with this one. Maybe not the perfect solution, but I think I was able to achieve what you are trying. It doesn't use the stuff function though. It just concats each string and then removes the last comma.

SELECT EmailAddress, CASE WHEN LEN(Subscriptions) > 0 THEN LEFT(Subscriptions, LEN(Subscriptions) - 1) ELSE '' END AS Subscriptions
FROM (
    SELECT EmailAddress, CONCAT(
            CASE WHEN SUM(CASE WHEN MarketingEmailOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) > 0 THEN 'MarketingEmail, ' ELSE '' END,
            CASE WHEN SUM(CASE WHEN NewsletterOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) > 0 THEN 'Newsletter, ' ELSE '' END,
            CASE WHEN SUM(CASE WHEN ThoughtLeaderOptIn = 'TRUE' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) > 0 THEN 'ThoughLeader, ' ELSE '' END
        ) AS Subscriptions
    FROM UK_AGT_AgentForms_TEST_DE 
    GROUP BY EmailAddress
) AS a