下面是一个使用“基本循环”和“rownum”实现给定场景的简单PL/SQL过程

表定义

CREATE TABLE "NAMES" ("NAME" VARCHAR2(10 BYTE))) ;

让我们将值插入此表

INSERT INTO NAMES VALUES('PETER');
INSERT INTO NAMES VALUES('PAUL');
INSERT INTO NAMES VALUES('MARY');

程序从这里开始

DECLARE 

MAXNUM INTEGER;
CNTR INTEGER := 1;
C_NAME NAMES.NAME%TYPE;
NSTR VARCHAR2(50);

BEGIN

SELECT MAX(ROWNUM) INTO MAXNUM FROM NAMES;

LOOP

SELECT NAME INTO  C_NAME FROM 
(SELECT ROWNUM RW, NAME FROM NAMES ) P WHERE P.RW = CNTR;

NSTR := NSTR ||','||C_NAME;
CNTR := CNTR + 1;
EXIT WHEN CNTR > MAXNUM;

END LOOP;

dbms_output.put_line(SUBSTR(NSTR,2));

END;

后果

PETER,PAUL,MARY

在Oracle中，它是wm_concat。我相信这个功能在10g及更高版本中可用。

SQL Server 2005或更高版本

CREATE TABLE dbo.Students
(
    StudentId INT
    , Name VARCHAR(50)
    , CONSTRAINT PK_Students PRIMARY KEY (StudentId)
);

CREATE TABLE dbo.Subjects
(
    SubjectId INT
    , Name VARCHAR(50)
    , CONSTRAINT PK_Subjects PRIMARY KEY (SubjectId)
);

CREATE TABLE dbo.Schedules
(
    StudentId INT
    , SubjectId INT
    , CONSTRAINT PK__Schedule PRIMARY KEY (StudentId, SubjectId)
    , CONSTRAINT FK_Schedule_Students FOREIGN KEY (StudentId) REFERENCES dbo.Students (StudentId)
    , CONSTRAINT FK_Schedule_Subjects FOREIGN KEY (SubjectId) REFERENCES dbo.Subjects (SubjectId)
);

INSERT dbo.Students (StudentId, Name) VALUES
    (1, 'Mary')
    , (2, 'John')
    , (3, 'Sam')
    , (4, 'Alaina')
    , (5, 'Edward')
;

INSERT dbo.Subjects (SubjectId, Name) VALUES
    (1, 'Physics')
    , (2, 'Geography')
    , (3, 'French')
    , (4, 'Gymnastics')
;

INSERT dbo.Schedules (StudentId, SubjectId) VALUES
    (1, 1)        --Mary, Physics
    , (2, 1)    --John, Physics
    , (3, 1)    --Sam, Physics
    , (4, 2)    --Alaina, Geography
    , (5, 2)    --Edward, Geography
;

SELECT
    sub.SubjectId
    , sub.Name AS [SubjectName]
    , ISNULL( x.Students, '') AS Students
FROM
    dbo.Subjects sub
    OUTER APPLY
    (
        SELECT
            CASE ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY stu.Name) WHEN 1 THEN '' ELSE ', ' END
            + stu.Name
        FROM
            dbo.Students stu
            INNER JOIN dbo.Schedules sch
                ON stu.StudentId = sch.StudentId
        WHERE
            sch.SubjectId = sub.SubjectId
        ORDER BY
            stu.Name
        FOR XML PATH('')
    ) x (Students)
;

在SQL Server 2017或更高版本中，可以使用STRING_AGG（）函数生成逗号分隔的值。请看下面的一个示例。

SELECT
    VendorId, STRING_AGG(FirstName,',') UsersName
FROM Users
WHERE VendorId != 9
GROUP BY VendorId

我们可以使用RECUSRSIVITY、WITH CTE、union ALL，如下所示

declare @mytable as table(id int identity(1,1), str nvarchar(100))
insert into @mytable values('Peter'),('Paul'),('Mary')

declare @myresult as table(id int,str nvarchar(max),ind int, R# int)

;with cte as(select id,cast(str as nvarchar(100)) as str, cast(0 as int) ind from @mytable
union all
select t2.id,cast(t1.str+',' +t2.str as nvarchar(100)) ,t1.ind+1 from cte t1 inner join @mytable t2 on t2.id=t1.id+1)
insert into @myresult select *,row_number() over(order by ind) R# from cte

select top 1 str from @myresult order by R# desc

要避免空值，可以使用CONCAT（）

DECLARE @names VARCHAR(500)
SELECT @names = CONCAT(@names, ' ', name) 
FROM Names
select @names