How to concatenate all columns in a select with SQL Server

Question

I need my select to have a pattern like this:

 SELECT \' \' + tbl.* + \' \' FROM table tbl;

The ideal solution wo

Answer 1

SQL Fiddle

MS SQL Server 2008 Schema Setup:

create table YourTable
(
  ID int identity primary key,
  Name varchar(50),
)

insert into YourTable values
('Name 1'),
('Name 2'),
('Name 3'),
('Name 4'),
('Name 5')

Query 1:

select (
       select (
              select ', '+T2.N.value('./text()[1]',  'varchar(max)')
              from (
                   select T.*
                   for xml path(''), type
                   ) as T1(N)
                cross apply T1.N.nodes('/*') as T2(N)
              for xml path(''), type
              ).value('substring(./text()[1], 3)',  'varchar(max)')
       for xml path('text'), type
       )
from YourTable as T

Results:

|               COLUMN_0 |
--------------------------
| 1, Name 1 |
| 2, Name 2 |
| 3, Name 3 |
| 4, Name 4 |
| 5, Name 5 |