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See <a title="Creating a comma-separated list" href="//www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/comma+separated+list/71700/" target="_blank">Creating a comma-separated list (SQL Spackle)</a> for explanation of how this works.

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-- Conditionally drop the test table to make reruns easier.
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#TestData','U') IS NOT NULL
   DROP TABLE #TestData;
CREATE TABLE #TestData (AccountNumber INT,
                        Value CHAR(3));
 
-- Build 1000 account numbers with random 3 character data.
WITH TENS (N) AS (SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0 UNION ALL
                  SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0 UNION ALL
                  SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0 UNION ALL
                  SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0 UNION ALL
                  SELECT 0 UNION ALL SELECT 0),
THOUSANDS (N) AS (SELECT 1
                    FROM TENS t1
                         CROSS JOIN TENS t2
                         CROSS JOIN TENS t3),
MILLIONS (N)  AS (SELECT 1
                    FROM THOUSANDS t1
                         CROSS JOIN THOUSANDS t2),
TALLY (N)    AS (SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY (SELECT 0))
                   FROM MILLIONS)
INSERT INTO #TestData
SELECT TOP (100000)
      AccountNumber = CASE WHEN (N%1000) = 0 THEN 1000
                      ELSE N%1000
                      END,
      VALUE = CHAR(CONVERT(INT,RAND(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))*10)+64)
            + CHAR(CONVERT(INT,RAND(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))*10)+64)
            + CHAR(CONVERT(INT,RAND(CHECKSUM(NEWID()))*10)+64)
  FROM TALLY;
-- Add a clustered index to the table
CREATE CLUSTERED INDEX IX_#TestData_Cover
    ON #TestData (AccountNumber, Value);
 
;WITH CTE AS
(
SELECT DISTINCT AccountNumber FROM #TestData
)
SELECT AccountNumber,
       CommaList = STUFF((SELECT ',' + Value
                            FROM #TestData
                           WHERE AccountNumber = CTE.AccountNumber
                           ORDER BY Value
                             FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE)
                         .value('.','varchar(max)')
                         ,1,1,'')
  FROM CTE
ORDER BY AccountNumber;

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