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Databases Reporting with SQL Working with Text Concatenating Text

Posted by Lisa Simpson
Lisa Simpson
33,351 Points

Concatination

how should formattingwork in concatination

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

Concatenation is just joining strings together, which can be from fields or literals. There's no "formatting" involved.

For example, if you were concatenating names of doctors, you might do something like this:

SELECT first_name || ' ' || last_name || ', MD.' AS Doctors FROM doctor_table;