Posted by Hugo Kornelis on 02/15/06 00:26

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:01:57 GMT, "Rico" <r c o l l e n s @ h e m m i n
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>Hello,
>
>I'm wondering if there is a way to concatenate two fields or a field and a
>string value in a single field in a view?
>
>Where in Access I might write;
>
> [field1] & " (m3)" as TotalVolume
>
>is there a way to do this in an SQL Server View?
>
>Thanks!
>

Hi Rico,

SQL Server uses the ANSI standard "+" operator to concatenate strings,
and the ANSI-standard single quotes to delimit string constants:

field1 + ' (m3)' AS TotalVolume

(Assuming field1 is char or varchar type - if it's numeric, the above
will result in an error; you'll have to force the correct conversion:

CAST(field1 AS varchar(10)) + ' (m3)' AS TotalVolume

--
Hugo Kornelis, SQL Server MVP

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