Koen Verbeeck continues investigating Snowflake capabilities:
Since SQL Server 2017, you have the STRING_AGG function, which has almost the exact same syntax as its Snowflake counterpart. There are two minor differences:
– Snowflake has an optional DISTINCT
– SQL Server has a default ascending sorting. If you want another sorting, you can specify one in the WITHIN GROUP clause. In Snowflake, there is no guaranteed sorting unless you specify it (again in the WITHIN GROUP clause).
It looks like LISTAGG is the ANSI standard name, though SQL Server followed Postgres’s lead in calling their function STRING_AGG.