How to turn one column of a table into a csv string in SQL Server without using a cursor

Question

I want to return the results of select Column from Table into a comma separated string using SQL Server.

The column in question is rather large (n

Answer 1

I've had problems with the method discussed in the suggested answer. I took the code from SQLAuthority. But this works every time if you have problem suggested solution

SELECT SUBSTRING(
(SELECT ',' + s.ColumnName
FROM dbo.table s
ORDER BY s.ColumnName
FOR XML PATH('')),2,200000) AS CSV
GO