Because I hate seeing > or & in my results… Since SQL Server 2005, we’ve been able to use FOR XML PATH('') to do string concatenation. I’ve blogged about it before several times. But I don’t think I’ve blogged about the fact that it all goes a bit wrong if you have special characters in the strings you’re concatenating. Generally, I don’t even worry about this. I should, but I don’t, particularly when the solution is so easy. Suppose I want to concatenate the list of user databases...(read more)