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markshen2006
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Posted - 04/28/2008 :  17:06:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi

I have a staff table and it has columns like firstname, lastname etc

I did the query and it works. but firstname and lastname are too close

SELECT (FirstName + Lastname) as fullname
FROM StaffList

I need the format "firstname , lastname " so I write the second query

SELECT (FirstName + " , " + Lastname) as fullname
FROM StaffList

But it doesn't work.Please help me and let me know how to make the second query work.

Thanks a lot

Mark

tkizer
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Posted - 04/28/2008 :  17:19:54  Show Profile  Visit tkizer's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Use single quotes instead of double quotes.

SELECT FirstName + ' ' + LastName AS FullName
FROM StaffList

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/
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visakh16
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Posted - 04/29/2008 :  00:07:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Make sure you dont have any NULL values appearing in any of your fields as concatenation with null yields nulls while CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL is ON. So its better to do like this to avoid NULLs in result
SELECT COALESCE(FirstName,'') + " , " + COALESCE(Lastname,'') as fullname
FROM StaffList

Also you dont really require the braces around concatenated field.
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