'Get comma-separated set of values from table where another reference value on another table appears twice (or more)

Suppose the following DB setup in SQL Server 2014:

DECLARE @MATERIAL TABLE (ID int, CODE varchar(30));

INSERT @MATERIAL (ID, CODE) VALUES
(1, 'D3033MBBY'),
(2, 'D3033MBTY'),
(3, '011130-01'),
(4, '011130-04C'),
(5, '021002'),
(6, '021017-B'),
(7, '021134-01'),
(8, '021135-01'),
(9, '021955-01'),
(10, '3LS91101-550'),
(11, 'D3049MBRB'),
(12, 'EF0118'),
(13, 'FV8130'),
(14, 'FY7009'),
(15, 'H05802'),
(16, 'D3033MRTE');

DECLARE @SUBSTITUTE TABLE (ID int, ITEID int, SUBSTITUTECODE varchar(100));

INSERT @SUBSTITUTE (ID, ITEID, SUBSTITUTECODE) VALUES
(5232, 1, '191045762418'),
(5442, 2, '191045762418'),
(6435, 3, '5206432380030'),
(6573, 4, '5206432380030'),
(6582, 5, '5206432357131'),
(6683, 6, '5206432369486'),
(7332, 7, '5206432380610'),
(7482, 8, '5206432380818'),
(7721, 9, '5206432346029'),
(7831, 10, '5205172116350'),
(8034, 11, '191045480992'),
(8184, 12, '4061622759543'),
(8284, 13, '4062058577497'),
(8573, 14, '4064039588089'),
(9438, 15, '4064048672519'),
(9746, 16, '191045762418');

SELECT sub.SUBSTITUTECODE
FROM @SUBSTITUTE AS sub
INNER JOIN @MATERIAL AS prod ON prod.ID = sub.ITEID
GROUP BY sub.SUBSTITUTECODE
HAVING COUNT(sub.SUBSTITUTECODE) > 1;

I would like to create a query that would produce the following resultset:

CODES SUBSTITUTECODE
D3033MBBY,D3033MBTY,D3033MRTE 191045762418
011130-01,011130-04C 5206432380030

In other words, I'd like to get a comma-separated set of CODEs in @MATERIAL where there are duplicate SUBSTITUTECODE references for those records in table @SUBSTITUTE

Indirectly, I can find the CODEs that correspond to those duplicate SUBSTITUTECODEs with the following query:

SELECT prod.CODE, sub.SUBSTITUTECODE
FROM @SUBSTITUTE AS sub
INNER JOIN @MATERIAL AS prod ON prod.ID = sub.ITEID
WHERE sub.SUBSTITUTECODE IN (SELECT sub.SUBSTITUTECODE
    FROM @SUBSTITUTE AS sub
    INNER JOIN @MATERIAL AS prod ON prod.ID = sub.ITEID
    GROUP BY sub.SUBSTITUTECODE
    HAVING COUNT(sub.SUBSTITUTECODE) > 1)

Working fiddle for the above case can be found here.

Please note that the full case of this scenario runs on SQL Server 2014.

TIA



Solution 1:[1]

Since you are using SQL Server 2014, you can't use STRING_AGG()

Here is the solution using FOR XML PATH

WITH CTE AS
(
    SELECT prod.CODE, sub.SUBSTITUTECODE, 
           c = COUNT(*) OVER (PARTITION BY sub.SUBSTITUTECODE)
    FROM   @SUBSTITUTE AS sub
           INNER JOIN @MATERIAL AS prod ON prod.ID = sub.ITEID
),
CTE2 AS
(
    SELECT *
    FROM   CTE
    WHERE  c > 1
)
SELECT STUFF((SELECT ',' + CODE 
              FROM CTE2 x 
              WHERE x.SUBSTITUTECODE = c.SUBSTITUTECODE 
              FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, ''),
       SUBSTITUTECODE
FROM   CTE2 c
GROUP BY SUBSTITUTECODE

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