Concatenate a selected column in a single query?

Question

I know you can do this, because I\'ve seen it done once before, but I forget where and up until now I haven\'t need to do it.

I have a table called Employees, and it

Answer 1

Use coalesce. Something like this:

DECLARE @Names varchar(1000)
SELECT @Names = COALESCE(@Names + ', ', '') + Name
FROM Employees