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How To Concatenate Two Character Strings Together?

Answer:

Concatenating two character strings together is most commonly used string operation. SQL Server 2005 allows to concatenate two character strings into a single string with the (+) operator. The following tutorial exercise shows you some string concatenation examples:

DECLARE @site VARCHAR(40);
SET @site = 'GlobalGuideLine.com';
SELECT 'Welcome to '+@site;
SELECT 'Current date and time is '
+CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), GETDATE());
GO
Welcome to GlobalGuideLine.com
Current date and time is May 19 2007 5:18PM

DECLARE @start INT, @end INT, @total INT;
SET @start = 21;
SET @end = 30;
SET @total = 728;
SELECT 'Search result '
+ CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),@start)
+ ' - '
+ CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),@end)
+ ' of '
+ CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),@total);
GO
Search result 21 - 30 of 728


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