[Solved] Grouping of columns with comma separated and padding extra blanks in SQL Server

How to optimize this SQL query?

In case you have your own slow SQL query, you can optimize it automatically here.

For the query above, the following recommendations will be helpful as part of the SQL tuning process.
You'll find 3 sections below:

  1. Description of the steps you can take to speed up the query.
  2. The optimal indexes for this query, which you can copy and create in your database.
  3. An automatically re-written query you can copy and execute in your database.
The optimization process and recommendations:
  1. Create Optimal Indexes (modified query below): The recommended indexes are an integral part of this optimization effort and should be created before testing the execution duration of the optimized query.
Optimal indexes for this query:
CREATE INDEX table1_idx_label ON Table1 (Label);
The optimized query:
SELECT
        T1.Label,
        STUFF((SELECT
            ', ' + CAST(T.Value AS VARCHAR) + ',"' + T.ColorCODE + '"' 
        FROM
            Table1 T 
        WHERE
            T.Label = T.Label 
        ORDER BY
            T.Label FOR XML PATH('')),
        1,
        2,
        '') AS Data 
    FROM
        Table1 T1 
    GROUP BY
        T1.Label 
    ORDER BY
        T1.Label

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