Re: Concatenation

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From: Craig Stuntz TeamB
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:20

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SimonW wrote:

> Alain wrote:
> > Hi,I wish to concatenate two fields in oneSELECT (lname + ', ' +
> > fname) AS  Name from clientsThe above is not working ! How to
> > ?Thanks
> SELECT (lname || ', ' || fname) AS Name

	Note that if either column is NULL then this returns NULL. Use CASE or
COALESCE to write a more robust solution.

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