PostgreSQL数组非常棒。例子：

创建一些测试数据：

postgres=# \c test
You are now connected to database "test" as user "hgimenez".
test=# create table names (name text);
CREATE TABLE
test=# insert into names (name) values ('Peter'), ('Paul'), ('Mary');
INSERT 0 3
test=# select * from names;
 name
-------
 Peter
 Paul
 Mary
(3 rows)

将它们聚合到一个数组中：

test=# select array_agg(name) from names;
 array_agg
-------------------
 {Peter,Paul,Mary}
(1 row)

将数组转换为逗号分隔的字符串：

test=# select array_to_string(array_agg(name), ', ') from names;
 array_to_string
-------------------
 Peter, Paul, Mary
(1 row)

DONE

由于PostgreSQL 9.0，引用删除的答案“没有名字的马”更容易：

select string_agg(name, ',') 
from names;

在SQL Server中实现这一点的一种方法是将表内容返回为XML（对于XML原始），将结果转换为字符串，然后用“，”替换标记。

我通常使用这样的select连接SQL Server中的字符串：

with lines as 
( 
  select 
    row_number() over(order by id) id, -- id is a line id
    line -- line of text.
  from
    source -- line source
), 
result_lines as 
( 
  select 
    id, 
    cast(line as nvarchar(max)) line 
  from 
    lines 
  where 
    id = 1 
  union all 
  select 
    l.id, 
    cast(r.line + N', ' + l.line as nvarchar(max))
  from 
    lines l 
    inner join 
    result_lines r 
    on 
      l.id = r.id + 1 
) 
select top 1 
  line
from
  result_lines
order by
  id desc

提出了递归CTE解决方案，但没有提供代码。下面的代码是递归CTE的示例。

请注意，虽然结果与问题相符，但数据与给定的描述并不完全相符，因为我假设您确实希望对行组（而不是表中的所有行）执行此操作。将其更改为与表中的所有行相匹配是读者的练习。

;WITH basetable AS (
    SELECT
        id,
        CAST(name AS VARCHAR(MAX)) name,
        ROW_NUMBER() OVER (Partition BY id ORDER BY seq) rw,
        COUNT(*) OVER (Partition BY id) recs
    FROM (VALUES
        (1, 'Johnny', 1),
        (1, 'M', 2),
        (2, 'Bill', 1),
        (2, 'S.', 4),
        (2, 'Preston', 5),
        (2, 'Esq.', 6),
        (3, 'Ted', 1),
        (3, 'Theodore', 2),
        (3, 'Logan', 3),
        (4, 'Peter', 1),
        (4, 'Paul', 2),
        (4, 'Mary', 3)
    ) g (id, name, seq)
),
rCTE AS (
    SELECT recs, id, name, rw
    FROM basetable
    WHERE rw = 1

    UNION ALL

    SELECT b.recs, r.ID, r.name +', '+ b.name name, r.rw + 1
    FROM basetable b
    INNER JOIN rCTE r ON b.id = r.id AND b.rw = r.rw + 1
)
SELECT name
FROM rCTE
WHERE recs = rw AND ID=4
OPTION (MAXRECURSION 101)

在MySQL中，有一个函数GROUP_CONCATT（），它允许您连接多行的值。例子：

SELECT 1 AS a, GROUP_CONCAT(name ORDER BY name ASC SEPARATOR ', ') AS people 
FROM users 
WHERE id IN (1,2,3) 
GROUP BY a

虽然为时已晚，而且已经有了许多解决方案。下面是MySQL的简单解决方案：

SELECT t1.id,
        GROUP_CONCAT(t1.id) ids
 FROM table t1 JOIN table t2 ON (t1.id = t2.id)
 GROUP BY t1.id