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Concatenate a single column in a comma-delimited list

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Concatenate a single column in a comma-delimited list

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I've seen multiple examples of people rolling up a single column into a comma delimited list, but I need a bit more.

Here is an example of the data and results I need.

DECLARE @SalesPerson table (SalesPersonID int, SalesPersonName varchar(10))
DECLARE @Region table (RegionID int, RegionName varchar(15))
DECLARE @SalesPersonRegion table (SalesPersonID int, RegionID int)

INSERT INTO @SalesPerson (SalesPersonID, SalesPersonName) VALUES (1,'Jeff')
INSERT INTO @SalesPerson (SalesPersonID, SalesPersonName) VALUES (2,'Pat')
INSERT INTO @SalesPerson (SalesPersonID, SalesPersonName) VALUES (3,'Joe') 

INSERT INTO @Region (RegionID, RegionName) VALUES (1,'North')
INSERT INTO @Region (RegionID, RegionName) VALUES (2,'South')
INSERT INTO @Region (RegionID, RegionName) VALUES (3,'East')
INSERT INTO @Region (RegionID, RegionName) VALUES (4,'West') 

INSERT INTO @SalesPersonRegion (SalesPersonID,RegionID) VALUES (1,1)
INSERT INTO @SalesPersonRegion (SalesPersonID,RegionID) VALUES (1,2)
INSERT INTO @SalesPersonRegion (SalesPersonID,RegionID) VALUES (1,3)
INSERT INTO @SalesPersonRegion (SalesPersonID,RegionID) VALUES (2,2)
INSERT INTO @SalesPersonRegion (SalesPersonID,RegionID) VALUES (2,3)
INSERT INTO @SalesPersonRegion (SalesPersonID,RegionID) VALUES (2,4)
INSERT INTO @SalesPersonRegion (SalesPersonID,RegionID) VALUES (3,1)
INSERT INTO @SalesPersonRegion (SalesPersonID,RegionID) VALUES (3,4)

A simple select will get me each sales person, with each of that salesperson's region.

SELECT
    sp.SalesPersonID,
    sp.SalesPersonName,
    r.RegionName
FROM @SalesPersonRegion spr
    JOIN @SalesPerson sp
        ON spr.SalesPersonID = sp.SalesPersonID
    JOIN @Region r
        ON spr.RegionID = r.RegionID

In this case, it will return 9 Rows.

I would like to get results like this:

SalesPersonID    SalesPersonName      Regions
1                Jeff                 North,South,East
2                Pat                  South,East,West
3                Joe                  North,West


SELECT
  sp.SalesPersonID,
  sp.SalesPersonName,
  Regions = STUFF
  (
    (
      SELECT ',' + r.RegionName
       FROM @Region AS r
       INNER JOIN @SalesPersonRegion AS spr
       ON r.RegionID = spr.RegionID
       WHERE spr.SalesPersonID = sp.SalesPersonID
       ORDER BY r.RegionID
       FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
    ).value('.[1]','nvarchar(max)'),
    1,1,''
  )
FROM @SalesPerson AS sp
ORDER BY sp.SalesPersonID;


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