All,
Using SSMS v17.2
Long story short I have 15 columns in a table, each record in the table has a different number of columns filled out, the rest are null. I then concatenate the columns with a comma delimiter. Problem is the fields which are null also get concatenated leaving me with trailing commas.
ARNP,ACLS Provider,BLS Provider CPR,,,,,,,,,,,,
COC,CPC,CRC,CPC-1,,,,,,,,,,,
CISSP,CCNA Security,Network +,,,,,,,,,,,,
Leadership (All levels),Education (Grades K-12),,,,,,,,,,,,,,
As you can see the very last character before the trailing commas can be either alpha numeric or special characters. I need help removing these training commas up to the first character that is not a comma such as the below.
ARNP,ACLS Provider,BLS Provider CPR
COC,CPC,CRC,CPC-1
CISSP,CCNA Security,Network +
Leadership (All levels),Education (Grades K-12)
Thank you
This returns the correct data after concatenation:
SELECT LEFT(@MyData, charindex(',,', @Mydata) - 1)
This prevents the trailing commas from being concatenated:
SELECT Col1 + ',' + IsNull(Col2 + ',', '') + IsNull(Col3 + ',', '') + IsNull(Col4 + ',', '') +
IsNull(Col5 + ',', '') + IsNull(Col6 + ',', '') + IsNull(Col7 + ',', '') + IsNull(Col8 + ',', '') +
IsNull(Col9 + ',', '') + IsNull(Col10 + ',', '') + IsNull(Col11 + ',', '') +
IsNull(Col12 + ',', '') + IsNull(Col13 + ',', '') + IsNull(Col14 + ',', '') + IsNull(Col15, '')
Actually, the above only works if concatenating a null returns a null. If this line:
SELECT 'xxx' + NULL
returns
xxx
then my second suggestion does not work
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