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calvinfoo
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2010-11-17 : 23:15:16
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| [code]UPDATE PR_headers SET remark = remark + 'new text' WHERE ID = 123[/code]It doesn't work if the remark is null, please advisep/s: SQL Server 2005remark is nvarchar(Max) |
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chadmat
The Chadinator
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Posted - 2010-11-18 : 00:27:11
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| UPDATE PR_headers SET remark = isnull(remark,'') + 'new text' WHERE ID = 123-Chad |
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calvinfoo
Posting Yak Master
129 Posts |
Posted - 2010-11-18 : 00:30:42
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Originally posted by chadmat
UPDATE PR_headers SET remark = isnull(remark,'') + 'new text' WHERE ID = 123-Chad
Thanks. Managed to find out the solution and the answer is same as your suggestion. |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2010-11-18 : 07:11:01
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| Reason is NULL is not regarded as a value under default conditions. So concatenation with NULL yields only NULL------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/ |
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Append to a null column