Get unique row or merge the values on unique rows - asp.net

SQLServer2008R2 and ASP.NET(VB) - VS2012
I am tring to use many-to-many relationship. I have a table to enter users, another one for the incidents and created a join table with the primary key from both the tables. I am trying to display top 20 incidents from the incident table and get the patron id from join table and then get the name of the patron from patron table. For an incident with two patrons, it creates two rows. I tried to use GROUP by but the query did not like it. Is there a way that I can display only one incident id with both patron names listed?
SELECT TOP (20)
tblIncident.Inci_ID
,tblIncident.Library
,tblIncident.Inci_date
,tblIncident.Inci_time
,tblIncident.Created_By
,tblJoin.PatronID AS Patron_ID
,tblPatron.FName + ' ' + tblPatron.LName AS FullName
FROM tblIncident
INNER JOIN tblJoin ON tblIncident.Inci_ID = tblJoin.InciID
INNER JOIN tblPatron ON tblJoin.PatronID = tblPatron.PatronID
WHERE tblIncident.Active = 'True'
ORDER BY tblIncident.Inci_date DESC

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Edit based on comment:
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from
(
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(
SELECT *
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Thanks to the answers below, I managed to come up with this. It is probably not the most efficient way but it is fine for a one time only update. This will insert for you the first corresponding entry of each group.
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(SELECT A.id, A.amount, B.id as Bid FROM A INNER JOIN B ON (B.id=A.B_id)
ORDER BY A.id DESC)
GROUP BY Bid;
So what you are looking for seems to be a JOIN inside of an UPDATE query. In mySQL you would use
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but this is not supported by sqlite as this probably related question points out. However, there is a workaround using REPLACE:
REPLACE INTO B
SELECT B.id, A.amount, A.date FROM A
LEFT JOIN B ON B.id=A.b_id
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One tricky method is to generate SQL that is then executed
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