Here is the problem
If you need to get the sum of salary by department we may be able to use Sum and group by clauses in a single select statement to get it done. But if you have a situation where you need to give a comma separated string of employees for each department, how will you handle it?
Consider these tables:
Department Table
| DepartmentID | DepartmentName |
| 1 | Sales |
| 2 | IT |
| 3 | Finance |
Employee Table
| EmployeeID | DepartmentID | EmployeeName |
| 1 | 1 | Sales Person 1 |
| 2 | 1 | Sales Person 2 |
| 3 | 2 | Developer 1 |
| 4 | 2 | Developer 2 |
| 5 | 2 | DBA 1 |
Now you want the results like this:
| DepartmentName | EmployeeList |
| Sales | Sales Person 1, Sales Person 2 |
| IT | Developer 1, Developer 2, DBA |
| Finance | NULL |