Store multiple values in a column instead of creating additional rows

Hi there :)
Can you guys show me a technique to translate the following result set:
Bus_ID Driver_Name State
1 Alan FL
1 Alan FL
1 Dan WA
2 Lukas FL
2 George WA
Into:
Bus_ID Driver_Name State
1 Alan, Dan FL, Wa
2 Lukas, George FL, WA
How can this result be achieved?

Please post DDL, so that people do not have to guess what the keys, constraints, Declarative Referential Integrity, data types, etc. in your schema are. Learn how to follow ISO-11179 data element naming conventions and formatting rules. Temporal data should
use ISO-8601 formats. Code should be in Standard SQL as much as possible and not local dialect.
This is minimal polite behavior on SQL forums. The useless text you posted is not a table! There is no key, and you want to destroy First Normal Form (1NF). Please, please, please read just one book on RDBMS so we will not have to read another posting like
this. It is painful to see this.
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Attack Type ->
Fire
Water
Grass
Fire
1/2x
2x
1/2x
Water
1/2x
1/2x
2x
Grass
2x
1/2x
1/2x
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1/4x
1x
1x
Fire/Grass
1x
1x
1/4x
Grass/Water
1x
1/4x
1x
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I've tried assigning number values to each damage multiplier and then merging all of them together for a specific typing and doing a VLOOKUP based on checkboxes determining what damage multiplier I want in a few specific types, the rest being filled in to the standard of 1x but the result isn't correct most of the time.

Hi Mitchell,
VLOOKUP can be set for accept either an 'exact match' or a 'close match'. Your 17 digit 'number' is actually a 17 character text string (Numbers can handle numbers to a precision of only 15 places). Provided all 17 digits are present, sorting should be the same as for numerical values—the leftmost character is the most significant.
As a text string, your 'number' is sorted/evaluated alphabetically. A 'close match' accepts the 'largest value that is less than or equal to the search value'.
If your search term is 000200000 (a 9 character string), several 'wrong' answers will fit the 'close match' criteria, including all of those listed below:
000200000 (the 'correct' match)
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0001xxxxx (x may be any of the three acceptable values)
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Column C uses SUM() to calculate the total of columns C to S for each row.
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Column A is a Header column; Row 1 is a Header row.
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Store multiple values into a variable

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1         2009
2         2009
3         2009
4         2009
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select     s_id
into       pID
from      xSample
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aka
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for each key, then you don't have to worry about the number of values at
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2     Z
2     W
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Function:
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http://e-docs.bea.com/wlcs/p13n/rules.htm )
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Yeeeeeeesh!!! : (
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Edited by: byrne_wayne on Nov 26, 2010 1:40 PM
Edited by: byrne_wayne on Nov 26, 2010 4:42 PM

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