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macca
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2012-08-28 : 11:30:09
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| I am doing a Select of two fields and merging them into one field.Select [Column1] + ' ' + [Column2] AS Column3If Column1 and Column2 both contain data then Column3 is returned with the combined value.But if 1 or 2 does not contain data NULL is returned to Column 3 for that record.Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? |
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sunitabeck
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2012-08-28 : 11:34:37
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You are not doing anything really "wrong", that is the expected behavior. NULL + anything else is NULL. To get around that use COALESCE or ISNULL like this:Select COALESCE([Column1],'') + ' ' + COALESCE([Column2],'') AS Column3 COALESCE function picks the first argument if that is not null, and the second one if the first happens to be null. |
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macca
Posting Yak Master
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Posted - 2012-08-29 : 05:35:40
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| Thanks, That did teh trick. |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Select returning NULL