I have been trying to create custom aggregate function in SQL Server. I finally got it working (wrote assembly in C#).
The goal is to concatenate all strings within a group, but the result is empty string.
Here is my class in C#:
[SqlUserDefinedAggregate(Format.UserDefined, MaxByteSize = 32)]
public struct STRING_CONCAT : IBinarySerialize
{
//result - concatenated string
SqlString result;
public void Init()
{
//empty the result
result = "";
}
public void Accumulate(SqlString value)
{
result += value;
}
public void Merge(STRING_CONCAT value)
{
Accumulate(value.Terminate());
}
public SqlString Terminate()
{
return result;
}
public void Read(BinaryReader r)
{
r.BaseStream.Position = 0;
result = r.ReadString();
}
public void Write(BinaryWriter w)
{
w.Write(result.GetUnicodeBytes());
w.BaseStream.Position = 0;
}
}
And here is T-SQL part:
CREATE ASSEMBLY [SQLAggregate]
FROM 'C:\CSharp\SQLAggregate\SQLAggregate\bin\Debug\SQLAggregate.dll'
GO
create aggregate STRING_CONCAT
(@string nvarchar(100))
returns nvarchar(4000)
external name [SQLAggregate].[SQLAggregate.STRING_CONCAT]
Remove the setting of position on BinaryReader/BinaryWriter and change w.Write(result.GetUnicodeBytes());
to w.Write(result.Value);
.